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View submission: Is modern Front-End development overengineered?
This is one of my biggest issues I have with the web. HTML for example dates back to the early 90s and was intended to link and display crudely formatted scientific documents, hence why the first version of the first browser lacked HTML form support. The entire thing is intended for print media, which is why screen oriented tasks like vertically centering stuff turns into memes.
I would love for a Winform style standard to emerge that is entirely focused on screen oriented usage. This would lend itself well to business applications.
Comment by rsd212 at 19/12/2024 at 20:20 UTC
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As someone who did a lot of front end development for native mobile apps, we could have attractive, accessible, localized, and internationalized screens adaptable for many different phone/tablet sizes and aspect ratios back in the late aughts using frameworks that were a pleasure to use and did not require any arcane knowledge or sacrificing of goats to the CSS gods. I miss those days, I loathe every web framework, and I wonder what it would take to get web development to not be a nightmare
Comment by monkeyzono at 19/12/2024 at 20:16 UTC
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Actually it sucks for printing, too. It's very difficult to get a "print layout" that looks consistent even for a single paper size
Comment by audioen at 19/12/2024 at 20:58 UTC
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Vertical centering has been solved problem for at least a decade. And even before then, it wasn't that much of a problem.
Comment by RandomGuy256 at 19/12/2024 at 21:07 UTC
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You could give Qt webassembly a try, especially if the initial load time is not an issue for your apps.