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That’s because it was from the start conceived to be a model for applications. In XAML layout and structure are defined in XAML and its a first class experience. The same goes for a vertically stacked panel with proportional sizing.

You can’t reason about the layout without looking at both the markup and the styling. You end up with this real disjointed representation. That’s to make up for a lack of attached properties. Whereas in XAML I can just define a Grid, in HTML I need to define a parent container, then apply a layout mode (sometimes to itself, sometimes to children via a selector). The problem imo stems from layout being split across HTML and CSS where you define structure in HTML but define layout behavior in CSS.
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Oh come, its a mess of cryptic properties (inconsistently implemented), a ton of hacks to get even basic layout functionality working, and some trial and error. Of course if you’re adamant in insisting on avoiding using both for apps that run on a web stack you can always use HTML5 Canvas or WebGL and draw all your UI widgets yourself. It’s a nightmare to try to mimic a window model in HTML. The underlying model of a window system is completely different from a document model, that’s the point. HTML+CSS has long since evolved away from being just a simple document markup pair.īut that’s not the question. Using HTML for a user-interface layer of an application really isn’t all that different to many desktop applications. It’s generally considered good practice to separate your views from your controllers, and it makes sense to use a document format for views. I’m not all that familiar with other platforms, but I’m fairly sure that most these days support having the UI defined using some kind of document format. Sure, developers tend to not write that XML themselves and instead draw out their UI inside Xcode, but the underlying tech is XML.
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His new mantra is “mobile first, cloud first”:ĭig into most Mac apps and you’ll find that the UI is defined in XML documents.
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The Win8.1 update becomes the start-menu back, but with live tiles and all the Win8.x shit. But they would have won a happy OpenSource-community.įor me, Satya Nadella is disappointingly. I think, Microsoft wouldn’t have lost anything, if they have had done it. I thoughted so, because there was some rumor, that Microsoft could acquire Xamarin:Īnd Xamarin is the main-developer of the OpenSource. NET under an OpenSource-license during the //build/-conference. But I hoped, that Microsoft would publishing.
