Ask HN: What's with the giant & clunky web designs?

Re:Ask HN: What's with the giant & clunky web designs? by jsundquist on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @10:35PM (#3354917)

Yep. Totally agree with you. The same is with the new Gmail. Looks great on my Apple Cinema display...way too huge on most other computers. It has got to be that these designers are using huge displays with resolutions to match.

Same thing happens to programmers...work on a very fast machine, and never realize how slow something is on an average users computer.

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Re:Ask HN: What's with the giant & clunky web designs? by Wilduck on Thursday December 15, 2011 @11:28AM (#3356753)

Gmail has become nearly unusable on my 11" Macbook air. I wouldn't mind it so much if you could A) minimize the top bar or B) have it not scroll with the page. However, as far as I can tell, these aren't options.

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Re:Ask HN: What's with the giant & clunky web designs? by wladimir on Thursday December 15, 2011 @03:47AM (#3355462)

I agree. The new gmail looks great on high-resolution, large screens. But on my laptop, it's terrible by default too much empty space; luckily they allow configuring the spacing.

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