Re:Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS
by Timwi on Thursday December 11, 2025 @07:10AM
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Yet, for some reason, mobile browsers do not reflow when you zoom in, but instead insist on horizontal scrolling, unlike their desktop counterparts. I've never understood that.
Re:Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS
by hypertele-Xii on Thursday December 11, 2025 @08:40AM
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Firefox has a "Desktop site" switch that when disabled changes this behavior.
Re:Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS
by Timwi on Saturday December 13, 2025 @06:35AM
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No, it does not change the zoom behavior.
Re:Incomplete list of mistakes in the design of CSS
by 6510 on Friday December 12, 2025 @10:37AM
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It is not like we have a choice. I forgot to mention that people also have different eye sight which further complicates things. Some set the font so large half the apps fail to fit. Before many people had one I see someone browse using an enormous TV with very high resolution. The google adds sidebar lived on the other side of the room. % size images upscaled into a pizza of artifacts. There wasn't a website that looked the way intended. A funny I ran into once was Lubuntu system dialogs with the accept button below the screen. I've also seen enough print previews where one cant read the text. The use of colors with poor contrast only on some displays.
We are having a lot of fun pretending it is possible.
Not beyond a point, but it's still very useful to be flexible up to that. For example, I'm very grateful that a web page will reflow text rather than print everything on one line and force horizontal scrolling.