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This is pretty cool. If you told me 20 years ago that the future of UI rendering would be GPU-accelerated HTML... I would have laughed. Heartily.
by jpm_sd 8y ago
This is pretty cool. If you told me 20 years ago that the future of UI rendering would be GPU-accelerated HTML... I would have laughed. Heartily.
- solarkraft 8y agoThe next generation pf applications will be made with quantum computer accelerated excel spreadsheets.
- c-smile 8y agoWhy such a surprise? 20 years ago Windows had .dlg resources that define layout and content of dialog windows. .dlg is just a binary representation of serialized window DOM. 16 years ago Visual Basic had .frm files that are close to what now known as QML. Et cetera. So there is nothing new with markup defining UI structure. What is new and quite valuable is CSS with its declarativeness and cascading.
- pjmlp 8y agoAnd all of those were/are easier to work with than picking a div and turn it into a component. One gets to write a bit of CSS soup and then ensuring it works as expected across all target browsers.