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

(screensize.net)

12 points | by zenpe 2 hours ago ago

10 comments

  • matsemann 4 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

  • unnah an 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.

  • MyFirstSass 13 minutes ago

    This is slop that looks like it was made with a single prompt

  • orielhaim an 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 20 minutes ago

      Exactly. Taskbars and browser chrome quietly eat 150px, which is why we now keep CTAs above 900px.

  • bcjdjsndon an hour ago

    Web development is such a mess man, it's all one bit hack trying to make programs out of documents

    • Pulcinella a few seconds 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.

    • bryanhogan 12 minutes ago

      I mean, with modern CSS you can build good experiences very well. Responsive is not easy but also not impossible.

    • hnbad 20 minutes ago

      Computers are such a mess man, it's all one bit hack trying to make brains out of rocks.

  • thisismyopinion an hour ago

    Claude slop design. Untrustable.