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Are they outdated, or have we merely ignored their wisdom?
by zeveb 9y ago
Are they outdated, or have we merely ignored their wisdom?
- hosh 9y agoInteresting -- is there one or two insights or wisdom you think is still being ignored?
- tonyarkles 9y agoHTML is still quite limited compared to native UI toolkits. It's still fundamentally a document model that we're using to write applications. Especially where layout is concerned: HTML and CSS are pretty clearly designed for document layout (and they're not half bad at that!). Flexbox helps, but it's still not there compared to e.g. layout constraints in Cassowary[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_(software)