[jbjb]

Originally Posted by PatNY

This is inaccurate. I never said "never has supported" or "in any way."

Here is what I did say, an exact quote:

"I do understand how compatibility with existing apps is always a concern. Apple's iOS can't scale to different screen sizes the way Android can. So every new screen size requires their developers to jump through hoops. That is a limitation of iOS which holds them back on the hardware front. But that is their fault."

I read that as saying that iOS can't scale UIs. Is that not what you meant?


What about:

every single time Apple puts out a new screen resolution, their developers have to put out a new version of their app that includes another set of artwork exactly scaled to that new resolution.

The "every single time", "have to" and "exactly scaled" parts of that seem to me to be an assertion that iOS cannot scale interfaces.

You still have not supported your claim that there was a practical way to scale apps prior to iOS6. Or that anyone ever did it, apart from a clunky attempt for a very esoteric app. Until you do, I stand by my claim that that the majority of my statement was correct.

What was clunky about the attempt?

You can disbelieve me if you like, but I can assure you that springs and struts were widely used (and actually still are for some interfaces, despite the presence of auto layout).

Please, don't purport to quote me without actually doing so. Don't put quotation marks around words that I never used.

I never said those things, and your use of quotation marks there is extremely poor.

I thought it was clear from the context that I was paraphrasing. If not, then I apologise - I'll make it more explicit in future.

/JB