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> I had a similar discussion on reddit a long time ago, and posted this screenshot of various Linux music players compared to Spotify. In 90s this was solved b

> I had a similar discussion on reddit a long time ago, and posted this screenshot of various Linux music players compared to Spotify. In 90s this was solved by using "skins" which were actually drawn in graphics programs and then spliced and edited in some proprietary editor and/or positioned by hand crafted config file. See https://winampheritage.com/skin https://winampheritage.com/skin for example. You can't go more original than these. :-D I don't see a point why you would need web library for this.

sgerenser 6y ago
Skins like that don’t scale. Fine if you’re still using a 1366*768 laptop, but even 1080p let alone 4K makes everything tiny or blown up and blurry. Doesn’t mean you need electron to fix it, it can be done with a native UI. But bitmapped skins are generally not used anymore for a reason.
- c-smile 6y ago
  > it can be done with a native UI. Yes, but with what price? We (people outside of Microsoft, Apple and Google) cannot afford UIs nailed down to pixel grids and particular trends. Years ago it was Skeumorphism, then it was flat UI as Metro, today people started speaking about Skeumorphism again. CSS is just a convenient tool to follow the trends. And "yes" it "doesn’t mean you need electron" as there are other options :) Take Sciter and forget about UI problems and "resource hogs" for years to come. HTML/CSS will be with us together with the Internet. And so are UI developers that can take care about it. And C++ developers in case you will need to fix something critical inside the Sciter.
  - nickpsecurity 6y ago
    You're taking a lot of crap here. I just wanted to chime in to say I thank you for trying to build something like Electron that's still lean and efficient. On top of it, I always use your licensing plans as a positive example in discussions about beneficial, but sustainable, licensing strategies. licensezero.com comes to mind. Keep up the good work.

sgerenser 6y ago

Skins like that don’t scale. Fine if you’re still using a 1366*768 laptop, but even 1080p let alone 4K makes everything tiny or blown up and blurry. Doesn’t mean you need electron to fix it, it can be done with a native UI. But bitmapped skins are generally not used anymore for a reason.

c-smile 6y ago
> it can be done with a native UI. Yes, but with what price? We (people outside of Microsoft, Apple and Google) cannot afford UIs nailed down to pixel grids and particular trends. Years ago it was Skeumorphism, then it was flat UI as Metro, today people started speaking about Skeumorphism again. CSS is just a convenient tool to follow the trends. And "yes" it "doesn’t mean you need electron" as there are other options :) Take Sciter and forget about UI problems and "resource hogs" for years to come. HTML/CSS will be with us together with the Internet. And so are UI developers that can take care about it. And C++ developers in case you will need to fix something critical inside the Sciter.
- nickpsecurity 6y ago
  You're taking a lot of crap here. I just wanted to chime in to say I thank you for trying to build something like Electron that's still lean and efficient. On top of it, I always use your licensing plans as a positive example in discussions about beneficial, but sustainable, licensing strategies. licensezero.com comes to mind. Keep up the good work.