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matti
Mar 31, 2019

you open a web site on an out-of-the-box macbook (the most turnkey normal person computer there is) and the height of the bread text is the width of your thumbprint

i am sure this is some "best practice" and there is a good reason for it

what is that?

matti fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Aug 23, 2023

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matti
Mar 31, 2019

like, my theory is people insisting on using Windows with way too low scaling but developing websites as if they did not

matti fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Aug 24, 2023

matti
Mar 31, 2019

it's jsut poo poo and grinds my gears!

matti
Mar 31, 2019

Dijkstracula posted:

cause small text is hard to read, OP

but giant text is also

matti
Mar 31, 2019

post hole digger posted:

you going to a lot of bread websites or something op

Finnish
Etymology
leipä (“bread”) +‎ teksti (“text”); thus called because the typesetters were formerly paid by letter and the body was the part of the text from which they earned their daily bread.

i just like the term

matti
Mar 31, 2019

calque of German Brottext

matti
Mar 31, 2019



you can still do that and it _kind of_ still works

if you have a fairly high tolerance for broken website layouts

matti
Mar 31, 2019

but last time i unticked that box, few years ago, the internet was still fairly usable with it untucked

not sure how it is now

matti
Mar 31, 2019

fix your display scaling, please

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matti
Mar 31, 2019

"no i can totally still read this 10 point verdana" *sticks their head closer to the monitor*

matti fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Aug 24, 2023

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