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Comment by rlupi | Hacker News Reader

This is totally unrelated to the language itself, but...

You have my greatest appreciation for building proper responsive websites in all those links, with proper CSS styles and sizing (rem units)!

I use a 40" 4K screen (no HiDPI) and almost any other website, including the most popular ones (I just checked github, google, bing) do not really follow responsible principles, use px units, and end up using just a tiny column of the screen... and they are not even consistent: bing and google use the left 1/3rd of the screen, github the central 1/3rd.

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I had to scale down the design to 50% scale to get it to fit on my screen without everything looking huge and wrapping, but after that everything looked usable.

[1] Full size: https://i.imgur.com/R0I6Vxs.png

[2] Half size: https://i.imgur.com/tQ6KpR4.png

Not sure if huge text is just the style these days, though. Probably looks great on a huge screen.

My experience is that tiny text is the style. I'm much more likely to have to scale something up than down. I can't remember the last time I scaled something down, but I scale things up every day. (I also liked the size choices of the OP... honestly wouldn't have minded slightly bigger).

Sorry, not so good with CSS. Home page should look better I think. :) Will fix it at some point

Home page was actually built by my wife. https://github.com/tashvit.

Other CSS are probably just luck ;)

A+ family

You don't even need a setup like that to feel that pain. That pretty accurately describes my experience with those websites - and many others - with just a 24" 1920x1200 monitor.

The weird silver lining is that most sites are also using fonts a bit too far on the small side for me, and don't respond too well if you jack them up much. But that unused 2/3s of the screen ends up allowing most websites to take a fair bit of zoom without any changes in layout.

I really don't get modern website design.

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