Re https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/, is it really worth fixing these things? What do you achieve by spending time and money to fix these details, other than making users slightly less annoyed by your design? Maybe these details are not fixed because they don’t really matter that much. Have you ever stopped using an app because a button or icon was slightly misaligned?
@simevidas The fact is: people are spending time trying to fix these, PMs create tickets, developers do the “work”. While a lot of this is possible to fix in one way or another, thinking about these problems on a higher level allows us to see if there are ways we could attempt to fix it even better. What is missing in CSS that could fix some of these edge-cases? How awkward the existing solutions could be?
@kizu Yes, thinking about these problems is a good thing. But if it’s very hard to solve these problems with existing CSS, then it’s maybe not worth spending too much time on it, and most devs should just wait for CSS to introduce new solutions to these problems.
@simevidas I’d compare this personal “perfect accuracy” passion with your “browsing the web with JS turned off” one. You find it important, and you’re ready to go the extra mile for this and try to convince other people, too. While some might find it useless or futile.
@pepelsbey That kinda proves my point. I browse with JS disabled for research purposes and my own interests, but it’s not a practical way to browse the web. Not in the slightest. So I can’t recommend it to anyone. My recommendation for most people is to use an ad blocker and other popular extensions that improve UX.
It’s the same with this perfect design. If you really wanna do it, do it, but it’s an “extreme” thing, and given limited time/money most devs are better off working on other things.
@joel In your free time, you can do what you want, but if you’re paid to get a job done, it may be hard to justify that you spent the entire day creating the perfect CSS to optimally align some icon for a specific web font across all browsers when you could have worked on features that are genuinely useful to users.
@danielm@aarbrk This lack of polish is present across the board, from small websites to big tech websites. The article proves that. When everybody is doing it wrong, then it becomes irrelevant. There is a lack of polish across the web, and apparently it doesn’t matter. Nobody is reacting to it. People aren’t abandoning Google/Microsoft/Apple because their buttons and icons are slightly misaligned. It doesn’t matter in practice. So why spend time and money on it?
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