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Everyone celebrates this, as if it were something worth celebrating. Yet all I see is another stake through the heart of desktop and native UI.

• marcosdumay 7y ago
  Most people don't like native desktop UIs. What is a shame, because we still didn't get something as nice to program for the web.
  • tomc1985 7y ago
    Most people who? Under 25s?
  • fnordsensei 7y ago
    Oh boy, I've seen nothing to confirm this. /user researcher (etc.)
• Yoric 7y ago
  Personally, I'm not a big fan of native UIs, so fine by me.
  • tomc1985 7y ago
    Native UI has an austere, functional beauty that graphic-designer-infected web-native UI lacks Plus I don't need half a dozen chromium processes just to run it
    • Yoric 7y ago
      > Native UI has an austere, functional beauty that graphic-designer-infected web-native UI lacks Let's just say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder :) > Plus I don't need half a dozen chromium processes just to run it Yeah, I'll grant you that. Native UI is mostly likely more memory and cpu efficient.
• spankalee 7y ago
  You don't think XBL was more native than HTML do you?
  • the8472 7y ago
    it used native widgets
    • paulrouget 7y ago
      No. XBL was not "using" widgets. XBL is a binding language.
  • tomc1985 7y ago
    It was. It rendered to GTK which renders to native widgetry
    • paulrouget 7y ago
      Not more native than HTML.
      • tomc1985 7y ago
        Sure, when people didn't style buttons or text boxes, because those also used native widgets