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TIL the Hairy Ball theorem (wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The theorem has been expressed colloquially as "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick" or "you can't comb the hair on a coconut".

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even in my original comment i said there are non js ways. But what i primarly meant here is, there are differnt "ideas" of implementing a mobile site, some just change element sizes, and make them vertical viewing friendly, but others do change quite a lot, for example, remove most clickable items from the header-bar or title bar, and move them to a kebab/hamburger menu. And I know even this particular example can be done in pure css, but I still feel my statement is not simply wrong.

Also I am not a front end dev, so I am sorry if I get stuff wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

No, you're right. The important part I wanted to highlight is that the usual way is CSS, not JS. There are a bunch of websites that use JS for this purpose, and probably also many CMSs etc., but doing it using CSS is far more common.