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Re:Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia by t-writescode on Monday December 06, 2021 @06:32PM (#29467173)
> If my browser window is the width of a mobile phone’s screen

It's not, is the thing.

I have a 23 inch screen for my 1080p screen. My phone has a 6ish inch diagonal.

When I make a window 960 x 1080, that's still something like 10 inches across and 11 inches tall. It's sheet-of-paper sized. I'm perfectly comfortable reading that as it was designed for a desktop layout.

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Re:Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia by account42 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:09AM (#29470119)
> I have a 23 inch screen for my 1080p screen. My phone has a 6ish inch diagonal.

Do you sit as close to your monitor as you hold your phone?

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Re:Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia by t-writescode on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:15PM (#29475266)
I would say that half of my monitor, more accurately, is about the dimensions of an iPad at comfortable viewing distance.

Phones are far taller than half of a 1080p screen.

Half a monitor is: 960 x 1080, or 1:1.125 A iPhone is: 828 x 1792, or 1:2.164

So websites tend to shove a candybar shape into a nearly square sheet of paper and waste a lot of usable proportions for things like controls or hamburger menus.

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Re:Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia by OJFord on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:37AM (#29470272)
Not GP, but yeah, about the same? From your phrasing I expect it's how close we hold our phones that differs though.
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