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Re:It’s time to kill the web app by gregmac on Sunday September 24, 2017 @11:49AM (#15325132)
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.

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Re:It’s time to kill the web app by mike_hearn on Sunday September 24, 2017 @03:24PM (#15326074)
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.

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