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by whartung 656 days ago
Monospace doesn't bother me.

Is the hard line endings that bother me.

Someone with their "retro" web site that, essentially, uses pre tags.

You get a wall of text, in a small font on the phone, reader view doesn't work, and if you tilt is sideways, you're as likely to get scrollbars as not.

Nowadays this is also my singular complaint with tech mailing lists. The hard line endings and rigid layout.

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That's not the case for this website. It is fully responsive.
I was trying to read some RFCs on my phone, and a simple paragraph had me scrolling right and left constantly (or zooming out until I couldn't read the text).
what's the thing with scroll bars? (curious)
I waz wondering, myself. Nobody I know doing retro/smolweb work is implementing scroll bars. They"re against the general spirit of the movement.
How are scrollbars against the spirit of the movement?