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Re:I don't want to do front-end anymore by mouzogu on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @09:51AM (#26078107)
I would say both. User in the sense that people expect the web to behave and be just as rich and fluid as a native app (and will often leave or mistrust you otherwise) and Client in the sense that having a rich web experience drives revenue and whatever other business metrics.

> it is staggering how easy it is to break many of those sites just by resizing the browser window.

I should say that a responsive website does not actually mean a website that responds to resizing the browser window - and that should not be taken to mean it's "broken". Saying that makes you sound like a typical sweatshop PM or stakeholder :) - i won't belabour the actual meaning here.

Re:I don't want to do front-end anymore by alpaca128 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:38AM (#26079492)
> I should say that a responsive website does not actually mean a website that responds to resizing the browser window

It does though, at least indirectly. If the point is to handle different screen sizes and resolutions properly that also has the side effect of handling window resizing; and if one doesn't work correctly the other will most likely have issues as well in some situations.

You can pick apart words and meanings as much as you want - a UI that stops fully functioning after the user makes a valid input I consider it broken. Hopefully you wouldn't call it "working as intended" either when a site becomes unscrollable, freezes up or literally moves sideways out of the browser's viewport when you type in a text field.

Resizing a window is not a weird edge case, it's been a basic UI feature for decades, supported even on some smartphones and tablets, and desktop applications have been able to handle it fine.

Re:I don't want to do front-end anymore by mouzogu on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @01:21AM (#26086185)
No what you are talking about is called fluid design not responsive. So whether a website responds fluidly to browser resizing is a design decision and not indicative of something being broken. This is such a common and frustrating misconception.
Re:I don't want to do front-end anymore by alpaca128 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:40AM (#26086541)
Sure, you can call not supporting one of the most basic UI features a "design decision", but it's a terrible decision and it won't protect you against valid complaints from users, just like apps like Skype got complaints for mishandling the window's close button.

Intentionally broken is still broken.

Re:I don't want to do front-end anymore by Person5478 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:14AM (#26079221)
> and will often leave or mistrust you otherwise

Oh bullcrap.

This is just a rationalization from people who like the shiny.