Re:It’s time to kill the web app
by mike_hearn on Sunday September 24, 2017 @09:21AM
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Very few web apps actually use the same HTML for desktop and mobile. It's more common for WordPress templates and other document-like things, but the UI constraints on a phone are so different that it's better to create a dedicated UI for them. So I'm not sure judging VB6 by that metric is valuable.
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It's not just mobile though - it's different dpi (4k screens are getting more popular), window sizes and zoom levels. Mobile is probably not a target for the forms apps the OP is talking about, but tablets may be, and different generations of various laptops and PCs are.
Web works across everything with little to no extra effort, whereas native app built with WYSIWYG UI builder is going to be constrained to certain hardware and take extra effort for handling display variations.
Re:It’s time to kill the web app
by mike_hearn on Sunday September 24, 2017 @03:24PM
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HiDPI was pioneered by Apple whose UI toolkits aren't particularly responsive at all.
You can certainly handle different window sizes with traditional UI layout managers. The only thing they don't do much of is totally changing the entire UI layout based on window size, and that's only because it's so rare to have a single app that's actually identical between tiny and huge screens.