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People use web apps with wildly different designs all the time because there are no UI standards and there is no basic toolkit. It's a bug, not a feature.
by trotsky 16y ago
People use web apps with wildly different designs all the time because there are no UI standards and there is no basic toolkit. It's a bug, not a feature.
- glhaynes 16y agoIt's a bug, not a feature. I'm not sure that's right... would the web have caught on and be as well-loved if everything used "system" colors and designs? Maybe you're envisioning something different, but I'm not sure where the middle ground is between the web as it exists today and a classic Windows 3.1 / Mac looking app - what would a "basic toolkit" look like beyond the HTML elements and form controls that we have?
- wtallis 16y agoThe thing is that, to the extent that it is a bug, it's a very harmless bug. The freedom to experiment and innovate with web apps has probably outweighed any harm from lack of consistency.