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Wanker

by EamonLeonard on 2/3/14, 5:53 PM with 10 comments

  • by GavinB on 2/3/14, 6:13 PM

    Pretty funny, but one second is far too short. This triggers even on a normal resizing. It should only trigger if someone is messing around for a few seconds. It's not much of an easter egg if anyone resizing their window gets it!

  • by freshyill on 2/3/14, 6:04 PM

    But…why?

    Responsive design is my job and I love to see how others do it. Why obscure that good work?

  • by WizzleKake on 2/3/14, 7:28 PM

    Someone might re-size your site because the design forces them to.

    I organize my windows so that my browser takes up the left half of my screen - so it's 960 pixels wide. Pretty big. I never make it any wider than this unless I'm looking at pictures, or forced to by a bad design.

    This site exemplifies a bad design that would force me to re-size my browser. I had to make my browser wider to get rid of a horizontal scroll bar on a code block. Nobody reading code on a website ever wants to scroll the code window side to side!

    Even though there was plenty of horizontal space for the code blocks to be displayed without scroll bars, this page's design favored blank space on either side of the code blocks over the code itself.

    When I have the browser wide enough to display all of the code, it may as well be taking up my entire screen. The remaining horizontal space isn't usable for anything.

    I see this problem with code samples on webpages all the time.

    Web designers today seem to be operating under the delusion that their site will be the only thing on a user's screen.

  • by lamby on 2/3/14, 6:52 PM

    Make it show a "we're hiring great front-end developers" message and this is actually quite practical.

  • by codex on 2/4/14, 4:17 AM

    This is pricelessly self-referential considering how many web people are, themselves, wankers.

  • by ultimatehurl on 2/3/14, 6:20 PM

    Happens a bit quickly but I guess you can't fault enthusiasm.

  • by makaveli8 on 2/3/14, 8:09 PM

    Luckily they let you change the delay time.

  • by ultimatedelman on 2/3/14, 6:05 PM

    cute... definitely something to add AFTER you're done developing for your breakpoints, though ;)