Browser Chrome by Golden Ratio

Description

The image shows an old Google/Chrome browser interface overlaid with measurement lines and a golden-ratio diagram. Visible text includes "Golden Ratio φ = 1.6180339887," labels "A," "B," and "C," the tab title "Google," the URL "http://www.google.com/," navigation links "Web," "Images," "Maps," "News," "Shopping," "Gmail," and "more," plus formulas "B = φ x A" and "C = φ x B." Red horizontal guides and a curved blue spiral suggest the browser toolbar spacing follows the golden ratio. The joke is that everyday UI chrome is being treated like mathematically sacred design, elevating browser layout measurements into faux-Renaissance engineering rigor.

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Finally, proof that browser toolbar height was not arbitrary; it was just product management discovering irrational numbers.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Finally, proof that browser toolbar height was not arbitrary; it was just product management discovering irrational numbers.
@Vintego 5y

A is absolutely useless and prevents from closing tabs quickly
@DerBico 5y

A does not exist... also B = C
1. @SpYvy 5y
  
  and it looks more pleasant to look at
2. @panKrysha 5y
  
  "used to"
@DerBico 5y

and there's a D which = C and B
1. @yarmoliq 5y
  
  С or* B
  
  @DerBico 5y
  
  (D = C) & (D = B)
@nyxi69 5y

Chrome tab design used my Ram
1. @panKrysha 5y
  
  Firefox ftw.
  
  @nyxi69 5y
  
  indeed
  
  @Roman_Millen 5y
  
  Since moving to Quantum engine FF doesn't differ that much now.
@yarmoliq 5y

Yes