There aren't much better ways of doing it. At least with existing alternatives. Have you genuinely tried the alternatives? I think the web has a lot of shortcom

There aren't much better ways of doing it. At least with existing alternatives. Have you genuinely tried the alternatives? I think the web has a lot of shortcomings, but it's still pretty great. We have a set of APIs for creating GUIs. It's called the web platform. It's all standardized with multiple independent implementations, and easily themeable. You're forgetting the many different targets that the web platform has. How should different widgets look and behave when handling different input types and screen sizes? Trying to get vendors to agree on anything of this scale is like trying to herd cats.