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[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 95 points 17 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 25 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Wonder if this is just the website not being able to cut the number in half, or whether they did this on purpose

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 5 hours ago

I think it’s a CSS issue. Word wrapping won’t break apart the amount because it’s considered one “word.”

There are ways to address it though.

Source: I’m a full stack web application developer

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I feel like its on purpose but i also feel like web designers are often incompetent with stuff like that. So im undecided.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 17 points 16 hours ago

Maybe the boss said, "Remove wordwrap in headline text for this post."

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

To be fair the browser default for stuff like this is often kind of bad. Like browsers would rather give you a scroll bar than do a word break (and I can pretty much guarantee that's what's happened here as I can scroll right and see the full number).

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago

The Register kind-of models itself after a tabloid style so has deliberately jokey headlines. It's been around a long time (I read it in the 90s) and seems to have quality underneath the humor.

Possibly the only remaining place where you can read the word "boffins" regularly.

[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

On my phone website fits the screen & appears normal, scrolling right reveals rest of the monies

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Yepyep, did the same on mine, I just zoomed the page out.

Honestly, really hope they did this on purpose, although I've seen plenty of cases where someone forgot to scale the text to Mobile and it went careening off-screen.

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 4 points 17 hours ago

Or do. It's not like people care if he breathes.