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Really nice, and I say that as someone that built a quite popular mobile web framework that duplicated a lot of iOS UI (Ionic). One thing I noticed is the swipe gestures aren’t working. This is all very doable on the web which many people don’t believe. It’s pretty wild what the web platform is capable of, the gap is absolutely with web devs who don’t know how to put the many modern APIs and capabilities into practice.


> modern APIs

In my experience the gap is also about supporting a wide range of users and their old or not so powerful devices. Sure polyfills do the job of support but at the cost of bundle size and compute, which may degrade the experience for that particular audience. My number one moto in web app design and development is KISS.

I’m glad so see ionic have a browser support page https://ionicframework.com/docs/reference/browser-support and will probably give it a try someday.


It’s usually the difference between having a low-level api and high-level api. iOS gives a lot “for free”.

Creating stuff from scratch is not a fun experience


>Creating stuff from scratch is not a fun experience

It's one of those things that I love the idea of doing. I'd love to create my own look and feel and design.

But day to day at my job I just need a dang button that does the thing or transition between things, a spinner or ... whatever.


And the amount of fine-tuning done on ios for the various gestures is quite astounding. Re-creating them using browser APIs isn't really entire possible.


You can extremely close if not imperceptibly there for a lot of interactions. The bigger issue is actually mobile browser “chrome” getting in the way (i.e. baked in gestures in mobile browsers)


> Creating stuff from scratch is not a fun experience

I'd have to say that I completely disagree here - it's one of the things I get most fun out of, even at work.




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