HTML is still quite limited compared to native UI toolkits. It's still fundamentally a document model that we're using to write applications. Especially where l

HTML is still quite limited compared to native UI toolkits. It's still fundamentally a document model that we're using to write applications. Especially where layout is concerned: HTML and CSS are pretty clearly designed for document layout (and they're not half bad at that!). Flexbox helps, but it's still not there compared to e.g. layout constraints in Cassowary[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_(software)