There are a great number of application that does not have a native look and feel, does not use built-in resources from the operating systems that I use and yet

There are a great number of application that does not have a native look and feel, does not use built-in resources from the operating systems that I use and yet I think they are great (Firefox, Vim, Apache Directory Studio), even WebKit (and WebKit2) is a cross platform layer on top of WebCore[1][2]. [1]: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/HighLevelOverview http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/HighLevelOverview [2]: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2 http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2