Our great sponsors
-
-
SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
Japan had phones with lots of graphics well before smartphones. Those systems were not web-based. They were mobile-only, and for small screens.
China has another system. Many things are applets within the WeChat environment. This is a whole different world, using MINA, WXML, and WXSS. It's kind of like XML with an external XSS style sheet. Here's the official repo.[1]
It's interesting to see where that division leads. The XSS approach separates content and look much more strongly than HTML/CSS does. (At least as HTML/CSS is typically used. It's possible to have an HTML document with just the data, and use a single separate style sheet in CSs. There are people who argue for that, and some elegant examples.[2] But they are voices in the wilderness.)
The funny thing is, despite a different underlying technology, WeChat applets seem to look a lot like HTML/CSS web pages. The difference may be that the WeChat system was efficient enough to eliminate the demand for "native" smartphone apps.
[1] https://github.com/Tencent/weui-wxss
[2] https://every-layout.dev/blog/css-components/
As someone who enjoys and prefers high-density of information, I agree.
However, I do wish HN would add support for @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark). By now it's one of the few sites that are unpleasantly bright to read when in a dark environment. (When I don't forget, I visit https://darkhn.herokuapp.com/ instead.)