> I'd rather write my own 2D tile tree format, with a simple flex-like rendering layout, than to work with HTML and expect reliability. I suspect you'd quickly

> I'd rather write my own 2D tile tree format, with a simple flex-like rendering layout, than to work with HTML and expect reliability. I suspect you'd quickly find there's a lot more complexity there than you predicted. Anyway - if that's what you want check out Qt + QML. You can do it badly, but when you use it well it's the best declarative UI framework I know.