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> but if done correctly I believe that something like this can be useable for complex applications as well I think this is one of the most fascinating "problem
by josefrichter 5y ago
> but if done correctly I believe that something like this can be useable for complex applications as well
I think this is one of the most fascinating "problems" in IT. There have been THOUSANDS of attempts to auto-convert design to code and it never works. It's been tried for at least 30 years now and still nobody solved this problem.. This leads me to believe we are solving the wrong problem.
I actually believe Flash was the closest thing to this holy grail. Except it was acquired by greedy Adobe that failed to evolve the product.
I am far from having a solution, I was just thinking that WASM is actually similar to Flash. What I mean is this: whole Figma can run in browser thanks to WASM. It has all the tools to visually create responsive websites in it. You can share Figma file as view-only. If I go to extreme, why not have Figma file in read-only mode on custom URL? No translation to HTML, just expose the Figma engine directly. (bandwidth and SEO problems are not impossible to solve)
At the end of the day, we are just trying to come up with different ways of adjusting same content for different screen sizes. It's a shame we are still losing this battle :-)