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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by toomanyducks on Monday May 03, 2021 @06:35PM (#27031742)
The web is broken. Someone's website wouldn't scroll (I don't remember the details, and I don't think I wanted to find out --- maybe it was overflow: hidden, but it could've been something else), and the only way I could figure out to deal with it was to open up the devtools responsive design mode and pretend the screen was bigger than it was so that the full page could show, and then use the browser's scrollbar from within that view.
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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by elliekelly on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:22PM (#27032180)
I’m one of the few weirdos who actually seeks out and reads the ToS & privacy policy posted on sites I visit and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run into a site with infinite scrolling and a footer (with all the “important” legal stuff) that a user will never see but for a fleeting moment. A feature or a bug? I’m never quite sure.
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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by valyagolev on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:32PM (#27032264)
In the footer, there's also sometimes the language picker, the "desktop version" link (often acting as a button with same urls, so you can't just save it), and the dev docs links. There's a site where I have to specifically open a page that is not infinite to make sure I enabled the desktop mode before going back to whatever I actually came to do
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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by onion2k on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:00AM (#27034220)
The web is broken.

When an app on your computer or phone doesn't work well do you say Windows or iOS is broken, or do you say the app is broken?

A broken website doesn't mean the web is broken.

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by toomanyducks on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @04:38PM (#27042598)
> When an app on your computer or phone doesn't work well do you say Windows or iOS is broken

Yes. All the time. A good platform supports that which builds upon it.

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by throwaway77770 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:05AM (#27035451)
The grain of the web is so that it's much easier to write something broken than something that works.

That's true of all development, granted, but doubly so the web, so yep... the web is broken.

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by onion2k on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:20AM (#27036347)
Most websites work quite well.
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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by ComputerGuru on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:57PM (#27046023)
That was mostly true before client side rendering.
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