Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports

(screensize.net)

16 points | by zenpe 2 hours ago

6 comments

  • unnah 1 hour ago
    Only showing the most common values means that sizes of non-maximized windows are lost in the noise. It would be nice to see a cumulative size distribution that would show the percentage of viewport widths smaller than x, for various values of x. Then a developer could easily see that if they make the content e.g. 900 pixels wide, what percent of users will have to scroll the viewport left/right.
    • zenpe 48 minutes ago
      [dead]
  • matsemann 23 minutes ago
    I've never found it that useful to see a list of numbers of sizes. I can't visualize them quickly, and in the end the exact pixels doesn't matter, it's the various ratios.

    I made this ~15 years ago. Took all the common phone resolutions at the time and scaled so that they all were similarly tall. Then it gave me a good grasp on what aspects my game needed to support. https://imgur.com/a/JT5JyyH

  • MyFirstSass 31 minutes ago
    This is slop that looks like it was made with a single prompt
  • orielhaim 1 hour ago
    yeah the 1920 by 920 finding matches what I keep hitting browser chrome quietly eats the height and layouts built for 1080 start clipping
    • zenpe 39 minutes ago
      Exactly. Taskbars and browser chrome quietly eat 150px, which is why we now keep CTAs above 900px.
  • thisismyopinion 1 hour ago
    Claude slop design. Untrustable.
  • bcjdjsndon 1 hour ago
    Web development is such a mess man, it's all one bit hack trying to make programs out of documents
    • Pulcinella 20 minutes ago
      And sharing of scientific information, the original purpose of the web, is largely done using PDFs rather than HTML documents. Truly a big mess.
    • hnbad 39 minutes ago
      Computers are such a mess man, it's all one bit hack trying to make brains out of rocks.
    • bryanhogan 31 minutes ago
      I mean, with modern CSS you can build good experiences very well. Responsive is not easy but also not impossible.