User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-452-20150520024001

Given the relatively recently revealed reasons for this rubbish update regarding reviewing resolutions, a revision and resubmission of my response is required.

I had been trying to give feedback in regard to the previous statements made, but now that it has been stated that this change has been made in response to people only making layouts for larger resolutions, the changes to how articles are displayed on larger resolutions actually makes sense ...from a certain point of view.

So, now, editors with larger resolutions are forced to take notice that their enormous tables and templates don't work well on smaller resolutions. That's fair enough, those editors need to know that, but it still unduly punishes readers with larger resolutions who don't want to have the fonts super-sized. Why punish the >95% for something the <5% did poorly?

But now, I'm faced with the opposite problem: I always checked my advanced tables/templates/whatever at the smallest supported article width, so today's changes didn't break them. However, due to the changes at high widths, and the fact that I know the preview is imprecise, how am I supposed to made sure the layouts that work at smaller widths still work at larger widths?


 * Before, I knew that all of the fonts would be the same, and the infoboxes would be identical in pixel size, and tables would just be stretched.
 * Now, I have no idea what the infoboxes look like, or if your giant fonts make them burst at the seams.