To emphasize this point, the alternatives would be ridiculed:
- overflow is assumed by default and constraining it is a whole bunch of necessary compromises, so my element maintains an aspect ratio but its content is overlapping siblings with the same aspect ratio. What the hell were they thinking?
- my element with 16:9 aspect ratio and the full text content of Moby Dick serialized as JSON was so wide my browser ate all my memory and swap, locked my computer up forcing a hard reboot
> full text content of Moby Dick serialized as JSON
Reminds me of when YouTube added a new comment system, but didn't specify a max length, and rendered the full text by default. People were spamming the Bible in comments.
- overflow is assumed by default and constraining it is a whole bunch of necessary compromises, so my element maintains an aspect ratio but its content is overlapping siblings with the same aspect ratio. What the hell were they thinking?
- my element with 16:9 aspect ratio and the full text content of Moby Dick serialized as JSON was so wide my browser ate all my memory and swap, locked my computer up forcing a hard reboot