Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit

Re:Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app clien... by lftl on Saturday January 05, 2013 @09:48AM (#5012744)

This is a bit pedantic, but elastic in design context usually refers to a design element that changes with respect to the user's font size. Reedit, has a few elements where that is the case, but I think the term that's more descriptive is responsive, meaning the layout changes with respect to the client's window size.

Saying it was elastic actually had my interest piqued, because you don't see many layouts that really respond to text size any more.

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Re:Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app clien... by bbx on Saturday January 05, 2013 @12:00PM (#5013165)

You're right. It is responsive and not exactly elastic. But even without changing your browser's width and just zooming in, the layout goes from 3 columns to 1 column and doesn't just make everything bigger. So you could say it is elastic too in some way.

I used to experiment in elastic designs (using em for all widths) but it was clearly difficult to maintain. But the main reason why I quit doing it is because nowadays most browsers' zoom in function isn't only increasing the font size but increasing all widths accordingly too. It's a complete zoom rather than a simple font increase.

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