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Right. Things like trees, multiple windows, theming, advanced components (with deep composition), collection views, etc. These are the real use cases for a libr

• simion314 7y ago
  Exactly, and I see people that will say you can do X with html/css and js but when you look at that example is full of bugs(for corner cases), missing features(like missing essential events), are not efficient etc. If you look at a mature GUI library advanced widget you will see how many events and thing supports and how many bugs were reported because there are many corner cases that need handling. I worked a lot with Flex4 I loved the fact that the widgets were optimized, you could have a list or tables with 1 million items and it would not affect performance. In Web I see the pattern where you use a lot of pages, you show like 12 results and you have the user hit Next and Next when you could have fitter a lot or even all the results on a large page, especially if is all text