• Psythik@lemm.ee
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        Hell, they were doing it way back in the 1930s. TVs had rounded corners all the way into the 90s due to limitations of CRT design. I didn’t start seeing TVs with hard corners until the early 2000s. They didn’t last very long, cause a couple of years later Plasmas and LCDs became a lot more affordable and killed off the CRT market.

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      It’s not really a new thing but it’s something that there’s seemingly no real reason for other than it looked good to whoever came up with it?

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        Rounded corners make sense for phones (cause they provide better protection against falls), but I’ll never understand why they would do this to a desktop browser.

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          better protection against falls

          Do they really? I don’t know about other phones but on my Pixel 6 Pro the entire front is pretty much covered with glass so it doesn’t really matter if the OLED has a rounded bezel in front of it or not.

          It might protect the actual OLED in case of a drop, though.

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            Structurally speaking, yes rounded corners are 2 magnitudes better against direct impacts. That’s just physics.

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        other than it looked good to whoever came up with it?

        That’s just objectively wrong. Biologically speaking.

        We have pretty much since we are Sapiens preferred rounded everything. Boba and Kiki are a thing.

        The oddity (biologically speaking) is finding sharp edges more appealing whee they offer no considerable advantage…

        When browsing even the least reactive webpage EVER; you won’t be needing those 32.5 missing pixels.

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          When browsing even the least reactive webpage EVER; you won’t be needing those 32.5 missing pixels.

          You think this is acceptable, until an ad put it’s close button up there and Chrome has already prevented AdBlock.

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            You think this is acceptable

            Yes.

            until an ad put it’s close button up there and Chrome has already prevented AdBlock.

            No.

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        Big companies don’t make highly visible design decisions like this on a whim… at least most of the time. They probably have research showing that rounded edges are preferred by end users. Maybe less anxiety inducing or something.