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I find this quite fascinating but: My browser settings include a font-size option, at least the first link's demo breaks with adjusted font sizes. (E.g. minimum font size == 15).

(Theoretically) If I would report a bug against your product, complaining that your layout breaks when I force font sizes in my browser, would you try to fix it or tell me that 99.9% of all users don't set font sizes and I shouldn't too?

the issue here is that we use pre-measured GSS (http://gridstylesheets.org/) on the site for perf reasons, and the intrinsic sizes of things were measured using the defaults. We could probably detect that you're overriding them and switch off the pre-measurements in that case. I'll talk with the GSS devs.

I suspected that this was the case. In my opinion that means GSS is fundamentally broken and the fact that nobody thought of that kind of discredits the whole thing...

The fact that 70% of "modern" websites already have the same bug doesn't justify it imho.

GSS handles it just fine, pre-measured GSS which isn't even yet an officially documented feature, doesn't.

But anyway, would be nice if you could document your setup and the problem you're seeing at https://github.com/gss/engine/issues

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