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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by retsibsi on Thursday July 03, 2025 @01:43PM (#44457457)
Sorry to go meta, but this is the first site I've visited that actively fights back when I try to zoom out (or in, but the text is already very big by default)! I'm wondering if it's deliberate (why??) or a side effect of something else.
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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by banana_giraffe on Thursday July 03, 2025 @02:51PM (#44458090)
The site uses "font-size: calc(1.5vw + 1.5vh);" or some variant, for most of the sizes, which has the effect to lock the size for everything to the size of the viewport, regardless of zoom.
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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by peeters on Thursday July 03, 2025 @03:41PM (#44458506)
Yeah that's a very bad idea.
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Re:Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) by ednaordinary on Thursday July 03, 2025 @04:44PM (#44459021)
hi! This is mostly due to my opinions around scaling but I didn't realize it impacted zoom so much, I'm not primarily a web dev. I'll change this to conform soon.
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