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"Market(consumers) for GUI design software will increase or decrease in future?" In regard of this, there are three types of consumer roles: 1. "readers" - al
by c-smile 6y ago
"Market(consumers) for GUI design software will increase or decrease in future?"
In regard of this, there are three types of consumer roles:
1. "readers" - all of us reading the internet, e.g. me and you reading HN now.
2. "creators" - all of us who create IT stuff and content at some extent- sites and content, browsers will never be quite adequate for that role, for many reasons. Compare desktop Word and those desperate and ugly attempts to reproduce it for browsers.
3. "app users" - you or me consuming modern applications, Slack, Skype, etc. That must be lightweight desktop apps, IMO. Sciter.JS (as does Sciter) is the best candidate for such cases.
Groups #2 and #3 are smaller but proportional to #1. As soon as #1 will grow as #2 and #3 will grow too.
So the need for desktop UI will definitely not go away in foreseeable future - only grow. And so the need of HTML/CSS in UI too - due to flexibility of Web stack and developers base.