This illustrates something that has been driving me crazy for years. It seems like more and more sites have modal floating elements at the top and bottom so my 1080 screen is only using a third of the available space for content, I hate to think what the internet must be like for people with 720 ultrabooks now. I've always assumed site designers are all using 4k screens and just can't believe people live without them anymore.
I just bought a 4k screen for myself, but it's still 16:9 (3840 x 2160). Scaled to the same relative size, it's no better.
I also have a 1920x1200 screen at work that I love, it's only 120 pixels taller and I honestly don't notice the difference much when in use, but when I push content over to the laptop screen or unplug, it's a huge loss.
I tried to find a 4:3 or 3:2 high-res screen, but even 2560 x 1600 (half as many pixels as my 4k, only 16:10) was more than double the cost of 16:9. I could not find any affordable displays with a non-widescreen aspect ratio.
And now I'm part of the problem, having signaled to the panel OEMs that I want 16:9...
The modals and stickies are there for marketing reasons obviously, and given sufficient budget, they will be designed responsively as well (not saying this makes the experience better).
Comments on this except for the one mentioning vh honestly don't reflect current web dev + design reality anymore. And even then, you probably want to consider dvh vs vh depending on what you are doing (of course you don't want your whole layout to shift because of the on-screen keyboard either)
But they reflect mistakes that bad designers make all the time.
When I was doing web dev, it was mostly like this: there are two mock-ups, one for 1920x1080 and one for the viewport of the latest iPhone or sth similar.
The rest was up to the skill and interpretation of the developer.
To a degree, this is a sane approach, because as a web dev, it is your job to understand this and tweak things to look good regardless of DPR and viewport size in CSS pixels.
If you want to design the perfect landing page, you will encounter all kinds of tradeoffs depending on viewport dimensions. But it can be fun to tackle this problem.
Google Ads is barely usable on my wife's 14' screen. I do have a bigger screen, but she doesn't. So yeah, some people are not conscious at all of other people's limitations.
SaaS backends often don't consider responsive designs for sane reasons. It's a tradeoff. It's hard to make a web app with many controls and widgets responaive without ruining the experience on bigger screens.
Also, 14" notebooks such as the MacBok Pro are notorious in their own right, they have a viewport width of about 1300 CSS "pixels" and about 2560 physical pixels on the horizontal axis (DPR around 2).
Many web devs fail to consider DPR in their media queries. Plainly speaking, a 14" MBP has less "CSS pixels" than a cheap 14" laptop with 1920x1080 physical pixels and a DPR of 1.
I want a CSS var for dppx so I can rescale a canvas element to it's native resolution. This is hard to do without JS right now but if you don't, your graphics will be blurry.
I keep seeing things that seem like they would be good uses for blockchain security and then I remember that all the investment in that space has gone into trying to print money.
Hybrid cars have batteries significantly smaller than any fully BEV. Sure, it takes that long for a BEV, but 120V should charge a hybrid to full much faster.
Even for a BEV, you can usually add 40-50 miles of charge overnight on a 120V plug. Not great for a roadtrip, but plenty for most folks daily commutes. In the example of an evacuation, it’s insufficient of course.
Some of us just don't enjoy socializing with whoever happens to be around more than we would enjoy just not socializing. I have had some good relationships with some of my co workers but I haven't made any real friends at my current job of ten years. And the people that talk the most tend to be the ones I find the most difficult to relate to, whether it's because they only want to talk about one thing (football or hunting generally) or all of their jokes assume everyone else is racist too. The specifics here have to do with my location but it seems like a wide enough issue that most of my real friends experience similar issues at their jobs as well.
I love the 1993 mario movie, I think you really summed up why I was so forgiving of the liberties it took. As a kid I had superimposed my imagination on the very limited source material and the movie just did that in a direction I didn't expect.
I have also heard that in its development there were the designs of a much darker cyberpunk world which was ultimately vetoed somewhere up the ladder, that sort of explains some of the weird choices.
This really isn't the same thing because you know how stores work. The whole argument here is that these websites aren't being upfront about what they expect from you. If you said "sign up for a free account and you can get some samples" we walk into the situation with eyes open and that is not what this article is complaining about.
I had a hand-full of friends and coworkers who felt this way. Talking to them about it broke them into three broad categories:
Enthusiastic extroverts who needed face to face interaction to stay happy. The pandemic limited their social options and they longed for the amount of in person interactions they had when working from the office.
Easily distractable people unable to set up a distraction free environment at home who got stressed because their productivity suffered. I thought I was going to be one of these people because I had a pre-school aged child who was also stuck at home but it didn't end up being that much of a problem for me thanks to my wife being very proactive and able to juggle her school schedule to when I was available to parent. Some of my co-workers privately admitted that they couldn't focus on work when their hobbies and house-chores were so close at hand.
Those who had issues in their home environment that caused them grief and they relied on the office as an escape rather than fixing their problem. These were the people who got divorced or broke leases at the beginning of the pandemic as they were unable to live 24/7 with the people they had been able to deal with as long as they had 40+ hours of break from them every week previously.
I forgot to add, I was suspicious at first that people were larping their jobs or it was managers who were trying to psyche everyone up to come back but at least in my experience it didn't go that way. They did make us come back when numbers were dropping (but before the vaccine was available to the general public) although the actual date they picked ended up being a major spike in my state related to a holiday weekend and they didn't back down from it. In the next month 80% of the office got Covid and they sent us back, I've been working from home since then. Like this article suggests, I would look for another job if they mandated return at this point. My math says it would be affectively a 10% pay cut to start commuting again, I'll never consider the commute as outside of work time again, it is either unpaid work or I'm considering it part of the time covered by my salary.
