> 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-v 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	xboxnolifes 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Or if you're really insane, localize the entire UI.

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someguyiguess 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	t098i3 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Even as a backend dev who dabbles in frontend as a hobby - I get the view looking great on desktop, then a week later I open the site on mobile and am horrified