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Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by cageface on Monday September 17, 2012 @03:19AM (#4531579)
Android's XML layouts feel a lot like a non-braindead web. There are a lot of similarities really, but simple things like vertically centering an element are as easy as they should be.

Text scaling can be a PITA though.

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Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by eckyptang on Monday September 17, 2012 @04:30AM (#4531695)
Same with XAML/WPF on Windows platforms which is very refreshing if you've been building for the web for years.
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Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by cageface on Monday September 17, 2012 @07:07AM (#4532015)
Yeah I've dabbled just a bit with these and they seem like a nice way to build UIs, also making data binding a lot cleaner than on the web or in the various mobile SDKs.

Honestly I think Microsoft has the best developer toolkit in the business right now but they haven't yet had the product design prowess to put that technology in the consumer's hands in any significant numbers.

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