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ebg13 on Sept 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News

All elements are super tiny unless you force zoom on them. The CSS says that all fonts are 10pt or _smaller_. There are 7pt fonts defined in there! Everything else is specified in exact pixels. Vote arrows are 10x10 pixels. Do you realize how small 10x10 pixels is on a modern display?

reificator on Sept 1, 2019 [–]

> Do you realize how small 10x10 pixels is on a modern display?

CSS `px` units are not equivalent to a device pixel.

https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#absolute-lengths

ebg13 on Sept 2, 2019 | [–]

That doesn't make it better. 10px at 1/96 inch per px makes them only 2.6mm.

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