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by hazz99 1705 days ago
With webview based applications becoming more and more common, maybe HTML is all we’ll ever need.
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raihansaputra 1705 days ago
I'm a Front End Dev and work with SPAs for the past 2 years. Working an offline-enabled PWA powered by Svelte and Redux. Honestly, I have a hunch that an HTML-based oriented development can still provide a great (measured) offline experience, without needing to rebuild wholesale to SPA.

It's a totally different ballgame if the app is mostly client-side utility anyway (calculators, etc), but the HTML + a bit of JS handling Service Worker and offline presentation should enable a great offline experience. I haven't seen it done in a large scale, but it should work.

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osrec 1705 days ago
Not if you want to adjust your views to different screen sizes and types.
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danjac 1705 days ago
Here you go:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Media_Queri...

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osrec 1705 days ago
In the wild, media queries are simply not enough. Often you need some JavaScript to really make things workable on smaller screens.
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jhgb 1705 days ago
Why couldn't the client provide information to the server for selecting the appropriate HTML and CSS code for that particular client?
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danjac 1705 days ago
"Some Javascript" != SPA.
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