I used AOL Instant Messenger in the year 1997. Chromium didn't even exist yet, right? You think that HTML and CSS somehow unlocked some magical powers that had

I used AOL Instant Messenger in the year 1997. Chromium didn't even exist yet, right? You think that HTML and CSS somehow unlocked some magical powers that had never existed before? That's pretty surprising given that DOOM came out in 1993 and did things several orders of magnitude more advanced than Slack's UI. I mean really. How would any of Slack's UI be impossible in QT? And conversely, if HTML is so good, why have we never actually written any applications with it, and instead rely on templating languages?