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Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
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#33First time probably ever that I've had to disable Javascript because of the creepy and distracting mouse thing. It really feels like you're invading other people's privacy, and if it doesn't, having things randomly move across your field of vision makes it difficult to read.
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#34The Apple one doesn’t seem fair. You can do the math to center the box but typography with descenders throws everything off. I think if they had centered it “correctly” it would feel off.
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#35> That’s exactly why people love web programming so much. There’s always a challenge. LOL, these examples are exactly why I got out of web programming. Thankfully I never had to deal with any of the modern frameworks. I was getting hot flashes just scrolling through this page.
I am not even sure whether the sentence you quoted is genuine or sarcastic.
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#36The Apple one doesn’t seem fair. You can do the math to center the box but typography with descenders throws everything off. I think if they had centered it “correctly” it would feel off.
Which Apple one? Apple features a bunch in here. The Quicktime record button can't be explained by descenders.
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#37> That’s exactly why people love web programming so much. There’s always a challenge. LOL, these examples are exactly why I got out of web programming. Thankfully I never had to deal with any of the modern frameworks. I was getting hot flashes just scrolling through this page.
Whats so terrible about the modern frameworks?
I used to have that attitude, but after trying the latest version of ReactJS I think its pretty nifty for what its intention is.
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#38> don’t ask why you need to remember four words instead of just horizontal/vertical, it’s still better than before The reason is "display: flex" can be a column or row. The "align-items" property describes alignment along the axis, so vertical for column and horizontal for row. The "justify-content" property is the other direction.
The other CSS terms for this are block and inline, as in padding-inline-start and padding-block-end. Whether it’s the top/bottom/left/right edge is determined by flow direction. iOS/SwiftUI calls the inline directions leading and trailing, but I’m not sure how it works with vertical type
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#39Hot take: modern front-end developers lack expertise in UI and typography to even notice such things.
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#40Text-Box-Trim I’m surprised ‘text-box-trim’ wasn’t mentioned. It’s a CSS attribute that solves this on the web. https://caniuse.com/css-text-box-trim If only browsers would support it. Until then, here’s a JS alternative. https://seek-oss.github.io/capsize/
Hardly worth mentioning a feature supported by...nothing
That's not true, it's obviously relevant to the article, plus, if it gets mentioned enough it's more likely to get support.