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0 pointsnecovek1y ago0 comments

You obviously have something against contemporary growth-obsession, but I don't see a relation to agile. Do I need to point out that there are cases where you would have enough profit only to cover running the business (if that) and can't afford to stress over smaller issues?

> Why would you make the gap clickable?

I already said why: if everyone expects that behaviour (OP obviously did).

Just like "sanding your UI" removes rough edges for customers, fixing things in computer languages removes papercuts for developers (customers of the language).

Regarding technical challenges, didn't OP switch to padding? How is that different?

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8n4vidtmkvmk1y ago

I do have an issue with growth obsession, but I concede it's unrelated. If you only have enough resources to do some subset of tasks, you should of course prioritize what's best for your business. I happen to work for a company that's not running on fumes, so I think they can afford to do some more sanding.

How is padding different? It's kind of in the definition of padding. Background colors and click regions are expected to fill the padding but not margins. It's the standard CSS box model.

necovekOP1y ago

> How is padding different? It's kind of in the definition of padding.

I was responding to you raising technical questions about how could gap work in some edge cases by saying: "same as padding".

If "gap" is always used like padding, why wouldn't it behave the same?

FTR, I am not sure it's used like that commonly (I've stopped doing CSS UIs before the flexbox came to be): I am not putting that out as a conditional by accident.

8n4vidtmkvmk1y ago

> If "gap" is always used like padding, why wouldn't it behave the same?

Ah.. yeah, that's a big loaded "if". I would say it's not. It's usually used as a gap, like the name implies. Gap and padding play nicely together too, so, if you want both, use both.

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0 pointsnecovek1y ago0 comments

> Why would you make the gap clickable?

I already said why: if everyone expects that behaviour (OP obviously did).

Just like "sanding your UI" removes rough edges for customers, fixing things in computer languages removes papercuts for developers (customers of the language).

Regarding technical challenges, didn't OP switch to padding? How is that different?

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8n4vidtmkvmk1y ago

How is padding different? It's kind of in the definition of padding. Background colors and click regions are expected to fill the padding but not margins. It's the standard CSS box model.

necovekOP1y ago

> How is padding different? It's kind of in the definition of padding.

I was responding to you raising technical questions about how could gap work in some edge cases by saying: "same as padding".

If "gap" is always used like padding, why wouldn't it behave the same?

FTR, I am not sure it's used like that commonly (I've stopped doing CSS UIs before the flexbox came to be): I am not putting that out as a conditional by accident.

8n4vidtmkvmk1y ago

> If "gap" is always used like padding, why wouldn't it behave the same?

Ah.. yeah, that's a big loaded "if". I would say it's not. It's usually used as a gap, like the name implies. Gap and padding play nicely together too, so, if you want both, use both.

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