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I agree; if you build a system that completely covers specifying layouts for all widget needs and a DSL that handles wiring views into models, for all operating

by pfooti 9y ago

I agree; if you build a system that completely covers specifying layouts for all widget needs and a DSL that handles wiring views into models, for all operating systems and device formfactors, you will have invented HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with the DOM api and a browser as the default interface.

pjmlp 9y ago
Not at all, because HTML, CSS and JavaScript are a poor man's UI with the lowest common denominator of OS features.
- pfooti 9y ago
  "lowest common denominator" is kind of a feature, when it comes to something used on a ton of different platforms. The rest can be built up out of those. I'm not saying that html et. al are amazing, just that I am doubtful something could be built that spans such a large vector space, so to speak, so expressively, without being subject to the same complaints.
- kodablah 9y ago
  > lowest common denominator of OS features Not sure I agree here. There are a great many browser features (e.g. web speech api for recognition and tts, webrtc, etc) that are just not lowest common denominator. Even if we stick with UI only, features like cross platform vector graphics are not trivial. Of course some libs like qt abstract it, but you're back to your same complaint except it's qml, css, and js (or often times worse, c++ if using widgets)