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That's what I love about iPhone13 mini with Safari. You spot badly designed sites immediately.

(This site's buttons are too wide and it bumps from left to right when scrolling sideways.)

It's still a free CSS kit, but now I know there's no care behind it.

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I remember how IE5 used to be the bottom rung to test a design against.

(The site renders perfectly for me in Firefox on Linux. I never owned an iPhone. I suppose whatever AI model was working on it also used a single desktop browser.)

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I only see a blank white page.

I'd expect that people who are specifically trying to show me an interesting CSS library could make at least something show up on the page without JavaScript.

As a matter of policy, I don't whitelist sites that give me neither a clear reason nor initial content.

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Right, so it's some JS SPA thing as well (of course).

Out of interest, do you not often find this a problem these days? I feel like there'd be a lot of sites out there that are non-functional or literally do nothing without JS.

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It does still happen not infrequently on a certain sort of site which I’ll simplify to “marketing homepage”, but it’s not happening anywhere near as often as it did three years ago. I haven’t tried to assess if this is because more-sensible frameworks have gained popularity, or if the stupid frameworks support server-side rendering better now.

Gotta say, though, that I don’t think one actually misses much in such cases.

Of sites that require JS to not be blank and don’t fit into this main category, my vague feeling is that the rate hasn’t changed much.

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Maybe it's triggering ad blockers? I have JS enabled and I see a few elements but it's obviously broken here too.

In any case it's not a great look if they want to encourage adoption of their tools!

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100% agree i wish i could upvote this comment twice
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> For a CSS design site, this looks fairly bad to my eye. I'm not any kind of UX expert, it just looks clunky:

Front page says "Build material design in record time", so it's on par with actual Material Design which is all that, and more. Here's a small thread I collected some time back: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1643607965935476737.html

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