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Visual editors work great when the thing will always look the way you've designed it. But that's not how the web works. Especially now that mobile web browsing
by drabiega 10y ago
Visual editors work great when the thing will always look the way you've designed it. But that's not how the web works. Especially now that mobile web browsing is a common thing, your site will be viewed on all sorts of devices with different resolutions / aspect ratios / etc.
When you add that factor in it shouldn't be hard to see why a visual editor is not sufficient. Visual editors are just not a great way to specify the type of logic that decides how your interface will look and behave at radically different sizes and shapes.
- bsaul 10y agointerface builder ( xcode ), does it well for iOS. You can preview you UI instantly for ipad / iphone in both portait and landscape. i think the reason the equivalent doesn't exists for web is maybe due to the complexity of css / html, and the various level of browser support, which makes all of it a dark art as soon as you aim for wide device support. Whereas Apple controls everything.
- syrrim 10y agoThe equivalent does sortof exist. You can of course preview your layout in the browser, and chrome (and possibly others) allows you to change the dimensions to reflect mobile devices. You can also link the source code in dev tools to a file, and edit the page live.