Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by littlestymaar 383 days ago
> "it looks good on my machine, so it looks good everywhere."

It bas always been a fallacy though, as with CSS the end result can depend on the DPI scaling and the size of the display (unless you make sure it doesn't, but then you need to test different setups to be sure).
1 comments
mort96 383 days ago
Well, they're right to point out that it removes a lot of inconsistency though. For example, today I was working on an app which used some Unicode characters as icons in buttons, and they look perfectly centered in the button in Firefox but weirdly off-Center in Chrome.

I never managed to find a set of CSS properties which made it look good in Chrome tho. And if it was a more serious project I'd probably have used SVGs instead of Unicode characters.

link
littlestymaar 383 days ago
Sure, the closer your config is from the actual user config the fewer issues you'll get, but I wanted to highlight that even with electron you ought to test on different configurations.
link
mort96 383 days ago
Oh, yeah, certainly. Even when I've made dinky little Electron apps I've had a Windows machine ready (I otherwise use Linux and macOS) just to make the Windows binary and do some rudimentary acceptance tests. You can't get away from testing on all your officially supported configurations.
link