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Gion Kunz
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Gion Kunz writes Mind The Shift, a personal blog at mindtheshift.wordpress.com about programming and web. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “R.I.P. REM, Viva CSS Reference Pixel”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Gion Kunz's blog, where the linked post "R.I.P. rem, viva..." argues for pixel units over rem and em in CSS, citing high-density displays and zooming. Commenters cite it in rem/em/px debates.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- R.I.P. REM, Viva CSS Reference Pixel6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2015-04-02
What Hacker News says?
What about good old px? I recently came across this article [0] which argues that after all the "best practices" of rem vs em maybe px is actually the best way to go, in order to accommodate high density displays and zooming. [0] https://mindtheshift.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/r-i-p-rem-viva...
Comment linking /2015/04/02/r-i-p-rem-viva-css-reference-pixel/
on “REM vs. EM – The Great Debate”Submitted R.I.P. REM, Viva CSS Reference Pixel as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor me, both units are pretty useless. PX is the way to go except for some cases, e.g. a button's padding that scales with its text or baseline grids. The following article (not mine) explains why pixel win: https://mindtheshift.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/r-i-p-rem-viva...
Comment linking /2015/04/02/r-i-p-rem-viva-css-reference-pixel/
on “REM vs. EM – The Great Debate”Submitted Getting the best out of BEM with Sass as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA pixel doesn't represent a hardware pixel. https://mindtheshift.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/r-i-p-rem-viva... So knowing about the existence of the reference pixel, as someone who isn't a designer, I don't see why text would have to be half size on a high resolution screen. I've seen images targeted to pixel density, but fonts are vector so it doesn't seem necessary. Am I missing something?
Comment linking /2015/04/02/r-i-p-rem-viva-css-reference-pixel/
on “Why I dislike the rem unit (2013)”Submitted R.I.P rem viva css reference pixel (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted R.I.P. REM, Viva CSS Reference Pixel as a story · 1 points
HN discussion