cmonguys

A Unified Theory of Layout?

Posted by cmonguys on Sunday May 21, 2017 @11:18PM
from the self-post dept.

A Unified Theory of Layout?This grid eschews Flexbox-based sizing in favor of percentage-based sizing while at the same time relying on Flexbox for alignment. It delivers the predictability of the percentage-based model with the more sophisticated alignment capasbility of the Flexbox model.The grid construct is extended beyond its archetypal form as a Rectilinear 2D Grid and generalized as a...

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Re:Asm-Dom – WebAssembly Virtual DOM on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:28PM (#14383623)

"All interactions with the DOM are written in Javascript."

You can only be as fast as the slowest link.

Does it help for virtual dom reconciliation to be in WASM as opposed to JS that is optimized and JIT'ed by modern JS engines? I doubt it as the use case is very different from VR/AR/AI where WASM would presumably have some advantage.

Any experts to educate us?