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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Borland? by dmitriid on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:27PM (#29514351)
> UIs that need to adapt to changing screen sizes, different needs, theming, and many more.

People keep saying that as if that is this new thing that wasn't ever heard of before the web or smartphones.

Open any desktop app and resize it. Boom, you've got "changing screen sizes".

And yeah, "needs are different, and we need theming is this new thing that never existed before the iPhone ".

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Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Borland? by nawgz on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:31PM (#29514405)
I think forced aspect ratio was very common in the era of these oldschool UI toolkits. Additionally, handling multiple classes of pixel density and input (touch vs mouse) was unheard of.
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