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The ease of providing a styled user interface. In the 2000s, this was something everybody wanted to archive, the term for it was "rich user interface". Already
by ktpsns 7y ago
The ease of providing a styled user interface. In the 2000s, this was something everybody wanted to archive, the term for it was "rich user interface". Already back then, embedding a HTML widget seemed an easy way to archive that.
- rhabarba 7y agoQt has been supporting CSS-like styling of your native applications for quite a while now.
- obliviousonions 7y agoIt's pretty hard and has a lot of problems. It's definitely not as easy as css and doesn't have as many options for styling. Sometimes, when you change one property, 5 other unrelated properties will change as well, and you need to manually set them. CSS is much easier to get a consistent theme for an application.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoIronically one of the big complaints against Java was that it didn't look native. Then not looking native became a feature.