By John Gruber
For 138 years Lady Liberty watched over us — now it’s time to return the favor.
Charles Ying, describing how Duplo, Flipboard’s new JavaScript-based layout engine, works:
Duplo starts in a similar way as Pages: A designer creates a set of layouts. From this set, Pages selects the layout that best fits the desired content. However, while Pages looks at about 20 candidate layouts, Duplo looks at anywhere between 2000 to 6000 candidates, searching for the best layout to fit the content.
★ Sunday, 20 April 2014