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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Zangoose@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
 

Alt text:Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a window shape almost like a stepped pyramid.

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[–] owsei@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

even if it's just mobile

you already have to handle landscape/portrait mode

now imagine having to handle angled

[–] grue@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

That's why you should've just handled arbitrary rotations instead of inventing a finite predefined set of orientation "modes" in the first place.

Things get a lot easier in the long run if you aggressively look for commonalities and genericize the code that handles them instead of writing bunches of one-off special cases.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And this is why my webapp only renders properly on circular displays.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Mine only renders on moebius strips.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Peak evil - well done. How much is the extra fee to wrap a letterbox around the circle on a conventional aspect ratio?

There's good money in this idea!

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Personally I went for the globe display, because I figured that was a more globally applicable format.

[–] owsei@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

true

however

everything would be fluid in the layout and you would need to set what should go on top of what. And having this feature doesn't seem worth the hassle of making if work, or even using it.

Imagine trying to type in a 'fluid' keyboard

TBH tho, seems like a cool gimmick for some apps.

[–] hex@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

And that's called Responsive web design

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That's called over-engineering for use cases that don't and won't exist. Please lecture us some more though.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You mean the browser handles alignment instead of every single web dev?