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Comment by setr

3 years ago

I am grossly offended by this

    .grid-item {
      ...
      height: 4.5rem;
      width: 4.5rem;
    }

That's a square.

Fine, a square is a rectangle. But that's a square.

There's no media queries to eliminate the square. There's no JS that affects the square-ness. It's all squares.

144 squares.

Yikes, I haven't thought anyone would venture there and see that monstrosity...

Well, now they're rectangles!

  •       height: 4.5rem;
        - width: 4.5rem;
        + width: 4.6rem;
    

    consider my offense revoked

Can someone clarify?

  • It’s tongue in cheek - the original site had squares not the advertised “rectangles” - even though a square is a type of rectangle most people consider rectangles to be the non-squares.

    • My 5-year-old knows that squares are a type of rectangle. Her kindergarten teacher corrected her when she said this during a shapes lesson and told her that rectangles always have two sides longer than the other.

      We haven't bothered to correct the teacher, but used it as a lesson to say that even intelligent people aren't always correct about everything.

      (She also had a preschool teacher that told her that blood is blue before it gets oxygen. This lesson is one that will be repeated throughout her life.)

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