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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by JohnFen on Friday October 25, 2019 @03:53PM (#21358624)
> Why can't we just have sites/apps/SPAs/whatever that look and work well on whatever device they supposedly support?

Indeed. There seems to be a weird idea that it's possible to make a UI that works well on all form factors. I don't see how that's possible, and I've never seen it happen in practice.

What actually happens is that you have a UI that works well on one form factor and badly on the others, or you have a UI that works poorly on them all.

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Re:Who Killed the Scrollbar? by jaredwiener on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:10PM (#21358763)
I think NYTimes.com is a good example. Theres a hamburger menu that expands to the whole screen when on mobile or tablet; its a sidebar on desktop. The whole arrangement of articles becomes linear on mobile; it isnt on desktop. It looks like someone figured out how it should look at every state, and then developed a way to gracefully switch between them -- not that it was a mobile UI that someone decided to enlarge on desktop.

This is why we have media queries in CSS!

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