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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by reaperducer on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @11:51AM (#26003310)
That makes sense on the surface, but you should design for all possibilities, current and future.

I learned this lesson the hard way. The client was on desktop. The users were 40% phones. Everything was great for months and months.

Then one day the owner of the company that owned the company tried to look at the web site on her grandkid's iPad. Fan met shit that day.

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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by owlmirror on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:33PM (#26003879)
that's something I don't understand. the Dev tools in Chrome and Firefox make it really easy to test through every resolution without problems. every UI change I make I view in all possible resolutions and its quite obvious of something breaks and I adjust accordingly.
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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by DangerousPie on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @05:15PM (#26007659)
The tooling isn't the problem, time is. Every device and resolution you support takes time and at some point you hit a point of diminishing returns.
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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by account42 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @04:04AM (#26011893)
If it takes too much time, you are probably doing something wrong like having hardcoded layouts for different resolutions instead of using reflow as much as possible.
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Re:Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on... by innocenat on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:13AM (#26012914)
Even with all reflow it's hard. Should I reduce a width a little bit more so that it become 3 columns instead of 2 on iPad vertical at risk of having some line wrapped? Things like that.
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