- cross-posted to:
- webdev@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- webdev@programming.dev
Centering things is a graphic design problem, not a computer science problem.
The hardest graphic design problem is indıcatıng sarcasm in a way only autıstıc people notice.
As a computer science problem it ends at position = window center / 2 - object width / 2
Is not always this simple though. If the window has yet to be spawned in some languages the width will be unavailable, until after. Sometimes the window can be seen before it moves to the center which is a bit jarring.
That’s a pretty good summary of the article actually.
The design is bad because the people who made the tools are doing a bad job.
I know very little about this subject - is this guy right?
At one point about 15 years ago he would have been right. Now? No, he is wrong.
No. It’s a joke. Proper computer science is not about this level of computer programming. Computer science is more a field of mathematics that studies the computability of things. Like making the traveling salesman problem more efficient. Or how to most efficiently determine if a giant number is prime. Or how to scramble a message such that it is unduly difficult to unscramble without a key factor.
I gave up 1/3 of the way in bc of the cursor troll. urgh
It seemed pretty clear to me that the article states that css is doing it’s job and it’s actually fonts that are the problem
Meanwhile in reality css totally confounds the well paid experts in c# and the whole world suffers.
But yea fonts…
Like the other dude, I didn’t get through a quarter of that article because of the stupid mouse pointer trolling. It seemed like a joke article, so I left a joke comment.
The dark mode on this site… Hardest I’ve laughed in a while. A+ trolling
Edit: only works on desktop by the looks
Centering with CSS hasn’t been a problem since the death of IE in like 2016. That’s 8 years ago.
Have you read the article?
That’s exactly why people love web programming so much. There’s always a challenge.
Ha, I swear, this must be sarcasm.
Great article nonetheless!
Haha yeah, I get what you mean. I think the author might mean “people who actively choose to do primarily web programming”, and isn’t being sarcastic. It’s baffling to me too, but I am glad that this subsection of odd challenge seekers exist, even if I can’t fathom people genuinely loving web programming.