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679 points MrVandemar | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 09:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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mannyv ◴[15 Oct 24 13:50 UTC] No.41848587[source]▶
One great thing about this book is the 'stuff I didn't do' part.

Layout is really hard. Just tables by themselves are hard, even without any css around them. CSS makes layout impossibly difficult. I challenge anyone to keep the whole CSS spec and its associated behaviors in their head.

At this point css + html + javascript have become a dynamic PDL, and probably is one of the most complex pieces of software today.

As an aside, video decoding is offloaded onto hardware, so it's not as battery intensive as it used to be.

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1. DanielHB ◴[15 Oct 24 15:14 UTC] No.41849487[source]▶
For React Native the facebook engineers just gave up and were like "all you get is flexbox layout" and people were quite okay with that (although some people grumble about lack of display grid)

https://github.com/facebook/yoga

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2. skydhash ◴[15 Oct 24 17:05 UTC] No.41850652[source]▶
It works great for small devices, but I prefer ios constraint layout (and I think android got it too). No need for spacers.