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Re:Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that ... by llm_trw on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:25PM (#42069671)
Papers only work because they know exactly what the view portal is and can design the layout relative to that. Unless you have an a3 sized screen this will not work very well online.
Re:Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that ... by 1123581321 on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:51PM (#42070031)
You can achieve some of the proportions with vw and vh units inside the article and column containers. Much of the effect comes from nicely laid out columns more than how many columns wide is your digital broadsheet, so the aesthetic scales okay on smaller screens. On mobile screens it’s just nice-looking individual columns.