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From: Mallory
Date: Jan 10, 2018 5:02AM


I can go with that :P

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018, at 11:13 AM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> On 10/01/2018 10:05, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> > On 10/01/2018 09:17, Mallory wrote:
> >>> Do you have actual examples where this happens? Because it's not really
> >> a given that responsive sites would cause more or less
> >> cutoffs/overflowing, since every measure (be it a measure set in pixels,
> >> or ems, or whatever) is scaled exactly the same way.
> >>
> >> So Twitter goes responsive (text in menus turn into icons, the
> >> left-side thingie goes away) but if I want to log out, I need to zoom
> >> waaaaaay the hell out because they forgot that sticky headers with
> >> dropdown menus are poop. If my screen was as large as those
> >> Silicon-valley designers it probably would still fit but I'm on a
> >> Lenovo stinkpad, like 12" or something.
> >>
> >> They check widths in their responsiveness but I guess they forgot
> >> about heights.
> >
> > That would also happen if they weren't using responsive web design. It's
> > just bad design, period.
>
> In fact, beyond a few tiny changes (the most visible one being that
> dropping of text from the menu at <800px), www.twitter.com isn't really
> a responsive site. The issue with the cut-off dropdown happens at all
> sizes when the height of the browser window is less than the dropdown
> length. Would also happen exactly the same way if you forced just
> text-only resizing or similar. It's not intrinsically a "responsive web
> / full-page zoom" type problem, but yes a "just badly designed in
> general" one.
>
> P
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