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Re:Web Starter Kit by adamnemecek on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:51PM (#7917962)
It's not that it's more complex, it's that you can do things with native layouts that you'd have to use JS to achieve on mobile.
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Re:Web Starter Kit by marknutter on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:19PM (#7918087)
Good thing browsers run JS, eh?
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Re:Web Starter Kit by adamnemecek on Thursday June 19, 2014 @04:40PM (#7918178)
Programming is all about abstraction management. Doing layouts with JS is using the wrong abstractions. CSS was originally conceived for doing document layouts but it's less suitable for web-application layout. We can leave the discussion here, if the article I posted didn't convince you, nothing probably will.
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Re:Web Starter Kit by marknutter on Thursday June 19, 2014 @05:32PM (#7918426)
Well, I'm somewhat still arguing in the context of the OP's assertion that "the hackery required to attempt to imitate native mobile apps is horrific". I not only disagree that it's horrific, but actually think it's pretty darn good. I agree with you that it's not perfect, but perfect is the enemy of good.
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