Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone

Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by altcognito on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:03AM (#26001714)

This was tried in the mid-late oughts was it not? It is nearly impossible to logically derive what should increase in sized and what should not.

Should the space given to sidebars increase? Should those sidebars disappear? What about headers and footers? How will the overfloat be treated? A single line, double lines? What about captions underneath images? How do you handle text that happens to be embedded within images themselves, or even on top of images?

"I don't care if headers look weird"

It goes beyond things looking weird, it really does break websites.

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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by nofunsir on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:22AM (#26001954)

God forbid we use the scroll bar.

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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by pc86 on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:07AM (#26002643)

Nobody's suggesting we not use it, and honestly I don't even know what this needlessly rude comment means in the context of the larger discussion.

Given that we're increasing the text 2x or 3x, it's an important question whether or not we're also increasing the width of the scrollbar 2x or 3x.

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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by richardwhiuk on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @04:23PM (#26006915)

Horizontal scrolling perform disastrously badly in UX testing.

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