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Interesting, I had not heard of this. Personally I find HTML to be the best layout system there is, besides animations, and I'm not even a web developer. I like
by devsquid 11y ago
Interesting, I had not heard of this. Personally I find HTML to be the best layout system there is, besides animations, and I'm not even a web developer. I like Dart, but its not statically typed and Flutter uses its own layout system.
- pjmlp 11y agoDeveloping native GUIs since the mid-90's, I think there have been quite a few better solutions.
- Rapidwire 11y agoAnd those "few better solutions" would be?
- pjmlp 11y ago- XAML - XUL - Layout managers like Motif, Swing, Tk, ... I never had with them half the problems I do have making HTML/CSS work properly across browsers.
- zghst 11y ago...well you wouldn't have those problems with XML tags/HTML being used in an app with a framework that uses a custom layout system.
- pjmlp 11y agoBut that isn't the W3C way anymore. True, the XHTML + XML modules would have brought us there, but another path was chosen.
- Nitramp 11y agoSwing didn't have baseline alignment until Java 1.5 iirc, so you couldn't put a label next to a text box without it looking dorky. And the controls felt slightly uncanny on every platform. No thanks, wouldn't buy again.
- pjmlp 11y agoSwing is great if one bothers to learn how to use it, instead of relying on the default control behaviours. What I mean by that, was being aware information like "Filthy Rich Clients" blog, http://filthyrichclients.org/ http://filthyrichclients.org/ I have been out of the CSS loop in the last three years. Can we finally center vertically without lots of tricks in a good way across browsers? I am not a designer and never managed to control layout in HTML/CSS, as easily as, I do in all the native toolkits I have used thus far.