- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:36:15 -0500
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- CC: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, Dan Appelquist <dan@bluevia.com>
On another list, Robin and I were discussing developer tools for native mobile apps. He asked: On 2/9/2012 5:25 AM, Robin Berjon wrote: > You mean IDEs and things that make Java developers happy? Or other types > of tools? Well, those among others. As far as I know, iPhone developers make at least moderately frequent use of the WYSIWYG layout in XCode. Last I checked a few years ago, Microsoft was pushing not just Visual C# for developer types, but also Expression Blend for designers, and I assume all those apply for Winphone. Tools like that let you do in drag n drop some of the things rails developers do in code. E.g. drag a list or table control into your app, point it at some data source, and have the control do at least some self-configuration, etc. My impression is that this stuff is used by app developers who may not necessarily be heavy duty Java (or C++/C#/Objective-C) coders. Certainly the Flex tooling, though not as directly applicable to mobile in most cases, is/was seen by many as attractive when compared to the tooling available for HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Noah
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