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by Slackwise 1131 days ago
> This was not a website designed for mobile - that's why it doesn't look appropriate on mobile. Not every website is designed for mobile - in fact there are usually two completely different websites for mobile and desktop. This one is only for desktop. This complaint is like renting a sports car and complaining it's not doing a good job at transporting your piano.

This is a very problematic take, and is simply inaccurate when it comes to the web.

If you write zero CSS, a web page will render just fine on any display. Text will auto-wrap and be legible. The web is "responsive" by default. It's the designers who try to rigidly align things with specific widths, explicit sizes, and absolute values that make web pages harder to read and use.

Meaning, any given element shouldn't have a `width`, it should have a `max-width` instead. Text should have a relative font size to headings or other text. Alignment should take into consideration overflow, as it will by default with flexbox and grid. Everything by default will flow in some way and try to make it onto the page.

It's all the violence of designers that makes things both less device friendly and less accessible, just like these poor contrast decisions.

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> It's all the violence of designers that makes things both less device friendly

"violence"? seriously? You should maybe dial back the hyperbole a bit.

And there it is, a low readability low contrast example..