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gyomutoday at 12:21 AM2 repliesview on HN

> At the same time, who among us didn’t nod in recognition at least, having once spent hours massaging a button UI string or a tooltip just to get it to fit under the certain width in a densely packed interface?

I did, and then I got a customer email about how they were using a display-zoom OS accessibility feature and things were truncated on their device. :')

See also: localizing your interface to German


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crooked-vtoday at 12:29 AM

Yep, any concern about text widows and orphans in modern app layouts becomes irrelevant as soon as you have to localize.

Just build your layout so it can squash/stretch appropriately.

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someguyiguesstoday at 1:23 AM

Anyone who ever worked as a front end developer definitely felt this.

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