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A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor

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293 points ulrischa | 1 comments | 18 Nov 24 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.253s | source
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account42 ◴[18 Nov 24 16:38 UTC] No.42174070[source]▶
Why are websites getting mouse position in screen coordinates in the first place?
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1. nine_k ◴[18 Nov 24 17:21 UTC] No.42174581[source]▶
Because this was easy to do during the 10 days allocated to develop JavaScript in 1995, and then backwards compatibility kicked in :(