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I actually used this template for an internal development tool and everyone loves how fast and simple it is.

Was this website written by Maddox? I haven't seen prose like this since the early 2000's. It's way over the top and never calms down.

By the looks of it, no; Drew McConville is not George Ouzounian. Guess Drew's just a fan.

confirmed

Regarding the line width section, I really wish people had developed the habit of resizing browser windows. Though unfortunately these days resizing the window makes fingerprinting significantly easier.

I have dozens of webpages open in my browser window. The tabbed UI means ALL webpages have the same window size. If I were to resize my window for various sites (or even various locations on the same site or page) I'd do nothing else but resize. Just switching back and forth between tabs then often requires resizing the window! I think the idea of "make websites full width, users can resize their window" builds on a few assumptions that were perhaps true on a linux desktop in 1996 but they aren't anymore:

- Users have reasonable window managers for non-maximized windows(they don't, they run windows mostly).

- Websites display text mostly that can flow nicely.

- Web browsers have one window per web page

I love the drag-window-to-edge-to-split-screen behavior in windows.

Yes, I wish there was something to make it split in 3 though for example. On an ultrawide monitor you don't want your browser on either the left or the right side, you want a 3 column layout.

Niche product: ability to resize the viewport within a tab

Sort of like a better UI for the mobile viewport/responsive design dev tools in browsers

It's worse than the original because the contrast is lower.

https://bestmotherfucking.website

Thanks, that's the real best one. I tried to find it with HN's search engine but failed because I forgot about the weird TLD.

That one actually hurts to look at on a calibrated monitor. Like, I literally get migraines from that contrast.

A lesson on why CSS should be able to specify the nits and colorspace you’d like your content to be displayed in, so it can be readable on your shitty screen, and avoid giving me headaches on my screen.

Well, if you do not like white background, just change default background in your browser config. I have light gray and it is perfect. I do not see why websites should override default colors unless they have a good reasons for specific colors.

Also, the color calibration AFAIK does not specify brightness. Perhaps the headaches are not from contrast, but from too much brightness?

Brightness is also specified for different media — between 100 and 300 nits for SDR content, and 1000 nits for HDR.

Text becomes painful if the contrast is too high, but if you have a cheap screen at 70 nits it won't ever be an issue.

Too bad the page's source isn't properly formatted, certainly if it's meant to make a point on how to do it properly.

Now that is really a great website design.

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