Comment by chii
8 hours ago
> People will go through obscene lengths to recreate what judicious use of absolute positioning can achieve fairly well
the web has the requirement that the 'document' look good no matter what device size/dimension, orientation, and/or capability.
In regular apps (say, a windows app), you don't have this requirement. In mobile apps, there's a standardized set of sizes. Only on web do we have both!
Not really? People impose the idea that they can make this work. Yet no sites looked good on the Nintendo DS browser, and people were largely ok with that. Few sites look genuinely good on phones. People are largely ok with that.