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A true winner Desktop GUI framework should target the web via WebAssembly. Accessibility of rendering everything in <canvas> is not an unsolvable problem. I al
by msoad 6y ago
A true winner Desktop GUI framework should target the web via WebAssembly. Accessibility of rendering everything in <canvas> is not an unsolvable problem.
I also think targeting only desktop will avoid so much distraction that comes with targeting iOS and Android
- simias 6y agoIf you're talking about rendering to a <canvas> instead of at least using the HTML DOM then you're not talking about a GUI toolkit really. You effectively just have a framebuffer and some primitives. That's not really what's being discussed here. If I just need a canvas to draw into I use the SDL, not GTK or Qt.
- jandrese 6y agoDoing this makes all of your applications similar to Electron apps. This is not a good thing. Nobody wants a desk calculator that requires 1GB of memory and takes 10 seconds to start. The amount of backend you need to implement a simple <canvas> is excessive for a great many apps.