On laptops, they are the minority but somewhat common i think. I'd guess trackpads are still way more common.
On desktops it is mouse and keyboard.
And CSS still seems to be unable to differentiate between these three - or even just between mobile/tablet and laptop/desktop (though there are cases where a 27" desktop monitor is not the same as a 14" laptop monitor), which is one of the reasons things are so awful. So people use hacks like minimum width or whatever as shown here:
Now it might be w3schools being bad and there is a better way but every single site i see out there that uses responsive design (what a name) does that. Assuming they bother with desktop at all.
Not to mention that they assume that all people use browsers in a maximized state. I have a huge monitor so i always keep browsers at around 1000px or less, which often triggers the "oh you are on a mobile, lemme bloat up everything for you" style.
In my personal project, I simply have two sets of templates and which one I use depends on the user agent. It isn't possible to adapt the same exact markup to two input paradigms this different without compromise.
Once Mac OS (and OSX) followed the ulititarian design from Brawn.
Now you have "material" (Bauhaus) design... done TOTALLY wrong.
The form doesn't follow usability at all. Just a posh design trying to
mimic a static format as if the computer screen was a flat magazine cover or
an information panel on a building. Zero usability.
We need the System 7, Be/Haiku, Windows 9x... design back. Now.
Problem is that in many companies designers are given absolute reign over how the product looks. And another problem I see all the time is that designers often treat the result of their work as an art piece, not as a tool that has the purpose of human-machine communication. So, yes, it looks nice if all you do with it is look at it.
Flat design has only one good thing about it: it can be easily done with vector graphics. Which is important for modern high-dpi displays. But I'll gladly go back to using a bunch of bitmaps for every button if that meant the UI would become more intuitive.
> We need the System 7, Be/Haiku, Windows 9x... design back. Now.
Skeuomorphism (OS X 10.9, Windows 7) was nice too tbh.
Among what? Are you telling me that you would design a desktop website with touchscreens in mind despite 99.99% visitors using it with a keyboard and mouse?
Most traffic is mobile these days (presumably mostly using touchscreens). There's various sources for this, like: https://www.statista.com/statistics/277125/share-of-website-... . Specific sites will vary, of course. I'd be curious to hear the ratio on HN.
