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And yet not a single valid reason is given. "Because it's the old way of doing things" is completely inadequate as a technical reason to not use a technology.

• BjoernKW 8y ago
  Having to worry about all these different screen sizes, devices, browsers and OS is a completely valid reason for not using a Windows 95 era form builder anymore.
  • deaddodo 8y ago
    As pointed out in other responses, pretty much every native kit nowadays offers sizing. Hell, it was one of the selling points for GTK+ back in 1998. What desktop apps are people using today that still have static sizes (outside of dialog/info boxes)?
  • ehnto 8y ago
    No one is talking about using form builders instead of react. They are talking about using modern, competent application frameworks that power some of the most powerful applications in use today. Almost everything in the web stack is an adaptation of a native technology.
    • BjoernKW 8y ago
      The basic metaphors are still the same because we're still using mouses on the desktop. With mobile devices these metaphors break down fairly quickly, though. HTML-based applications however also introduced a number of new metaphors and patterns such as the page paradigm that, while originally reminiscent of printed pages, is different from anything both in the physical world and within native desktop applications. Typography and information hierarchy are other aspects that usually can't be implemented as easily or as flexibly with native UI kits as with HTML-based approaches.