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werdnapk 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form ...

I've always found the use of anchors on UI controls to be light years ahead of what HTML/CSS have been doing. I always used to create UI forms with resizing and different screen sizes in mind. If you were coding for a hard coded 800x600 screen then that was just laziness.

lukan 7 months ago [–]

Does that solve the problem between vertical/horizontal layout?

On a mobile the default is vertical, on a desktop horizontal. That matters more than different screen size and is the hard part.

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