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The software industry largely decided to use HTML for the front end, it also largely gave up the 20 years of R&D on GUI design tools for existing semantically r
by intrasight 10y ago
The software industry largely decided to use HTML for the front end, it also largely gave up the 20 years of R&D on GUI design tools for existing semantically rich front-end frameworks. If Motif were FOSS or if CMU hadn't handed license rights to Andrew WM to IBM, we'd have probably avoided this whole mess that is HTML.
- edwinjm 10y agoHaha. Do a google image search for "motif gui" and you'll see the most horrible interfaces made by men.
- intrasight 10y agoThat like looking at Windows 3.1 screenshots and saying Windows 10 is horrible. Obviously thing would have evolved and improved. My point is that it was encumbered by licensing issues and therefore wasn't adopted.
- Postosuchus 10y agoMotif, seriously?! A crap-ass, practically committee-built framework that tried to mimic Windows UX without investing in any real UX?! With all the glory of writing hundreds of LOC to achieve small things, casting things into generic Xt pointers, debugging segfaults caused by occasional wrong structure cast etc etc. HTML stressed rapid results and quick iteration. Surely, it bought many other idiosyncrasies to the table but proposing Motif as HTML killer... In this case we should also declare CORBA a hypothetically better alternative to SOAP and WSDL...