An in-the-weeds tirade to put an end to the lackluster practice of browser resizing. Use the browser's device mode or a whole range of free tools to improve accuracy

🛑 Stop resizing your browser: improve testing for responsiveness

https://www.jenchan.biz/blog/stop-resizing-your-browser-improve-responsive-testing

Window size is *one* aspect of responsive design. There’s nothing wrong with resizing the window, as long as you’re aware that there are many more aspects to test as well.

"When you resize your browser, you're not testing for responsiveness. You're testing the side effect of how a layout looks when you resize a browser."

Here's an excellent article to read the why: https://www.jenchan.biz/blog/stop-resizing-your-browser-improve-responsive-testing

Yes it’s not wrong. But I have seen so many people testing responsiveness by resizing the window. That’s it.

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