Web4 Should Run on LaTeX

Re:Web4 Should Run on LaTeX by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:05PM (#29372399)

I feel that it's cheating here to include android and ios in this list, since so much stuff that is developed either:

  * is only for those two (and sometimes only one of those) platforms

  * the preferred "version" on those platforms in an app, rather than web-based

It's clear from the scope of the mobile app market that there's a huge marketplace for a kind of application that essentially never existed on desktops. It seems a little bold to insist that the same x-platform toolkit must service mobile and desktop contexts, when so much is different between them, in particular display size and interaction style. Even more so when the evidence seems to be that not even the web has really managed to do this.

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Re:Web4 Should Run on LaTeX by JasonCannon on Sunday November 28, 2021 @04:05PM (#29373014)

And yet HTML+CSS+JS which is so hated for making applications handles the use case of working across mobile and desktop almost perfectly. Maybe it's not just because we don't want to learn real programming like the grandparent post insinuated and instead a perfectly viable solution to the problem at hand.

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Re:Web4 Should Run on LaTeX by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday November 28, 2021 @04:15PM (#29373123)

If it is handled so perfectly by web tech, why do mobile apps exist?

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Re:Web4 Should Run on LaTeX by ttybird on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @03:02AM (#29401759)

Easier to track you.

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