On Friday, 6 March 2015 at 13:02:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 6 March 2015 at 12:30:36 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I am hoping mobile applications and application stores bring
an end to the non-sense of bending documents into applications.
Yes, the model-view separation could be better for large
datasets ( > 5000 items), but you can do it just fine now that
hardware/engines are fast enough (by absolute positioning
relative to the list view). Once most platforms are fast enough
you can get good updates/framerates even if HTML5 is somewhat
inefficient for some display strategies. The good thing is that
we are really close to that threshold now, and that better
refresh rates than 60hz makes no sense.
Or that we get to have the second comeback of XHTML, and
finally have something like XAML on the browser, which was
XHTML original idea.
I think HTML5 brings very nice semantics to document markup, so
you can use XHTML5 if you want. And Shadow-DOM/Polymer with
two-way binding (variables and UI-elements are automatically
updated when one change) is more like an extensible
display-graph than a document, but you can also turn
XML-ish/JSON-ish data into a pre-filled form to have a custom
editor in a document like fashion.
Quite a few quirks and some boilerplate at the moment, but one
can play with it already. I am testing Dart+Polymer+Paper
Elements for an Chrome based admin interface right now. I think
it is moving in the right direction, although at bit
"complicated" without tooling.
When the quirks are ironed out, the tooling certainly will
come... Overall, I think it will be easier to use than Cocoa et
al, with roughly the same capability, but a lot more ready made
components. If Google keeps investing in the tech... The only
problem would be that it might be too complicated for avarage
web devs without tooling, and that the tooling-devs wait for
avarage web devs to pick it up. Catch 22.
I am doing web development alongside native since the .com days,
those quirks will never go away as long as the trend of building
hack on top of hack continues.
--
Paulo
