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0 pointsmarknutter12y ago0 comments

I still don't understand why the issue is more complex for native mobile apps than it is for web mobile apps? Don't they all have to accommodate for the same screen sizes?

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adamnemecek12y ago· 2 in thread

It's not that it's more complex, it's that you can do things with native layouts that you'd have to use JS to achieve on mobile.

marknutterOP12y ago

Good thing browsers run JS, eh?

adamnemecek12y ago

Programming is all about abstraction management. Doing layouts with JS is using the wrong abstractions. CSS was originally conceived for doing document layouts but it's less suitable for web-application layout. We can leave the discussion here, if the article I posted didn't convince you, nothing probably will.

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