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There are a ton of effective drag and drop GUI builders for HTML/CSS: Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, and Plasmic to name a few, and that's just the current generati
by ironmagma 5y ago
There are a ton of effective drag and drop GUI builders for HTML/CSS: Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, and Plasmic to name a few, and that's just the current generation (see also: Dreamweaver et al.).
> Even html frames and tables were better than what we are using today
How? CSS and HTML can do practically everything frames could do (the only thing I can think of that doesn't apply is independent histories). There are a lot of different technologies at your disposal -- grid, which is probably the most intuitive; flex box; or just `position: fixed` divs.
- Aeolun 5y agoAre those building a GUI? Or just a website? As far as I know they’re mostly about markup.
- ironmagma 5y agoThat's a strange distinction to make. Websites are a type of GUIs. You can build some pretty complicated things without JavaScript, but if you need JS, then yes, most of them support it in some form or another, Plasmic probably being the most sophisticated.
- hulitu 5y agoCalling websites GUI is a bit streched. A phone can be called a computer but the computations it does are limited to data collecting. Websites also could have good UI (even GUI) but most are limited to (again) data collection and the UI is the same like the one between Ice age humans and first domesticated animals.
- ironmagma 5y agoI think you're overcomplicating this; the meaning of these words is in the acronyms themselves. What's a UI? A user interface -- any layer that goes between the user and some machine. What's a GUI? A user interface that is graphical, or: a layer that uses graphics to go between the user and a machine. Since websites use graphics (pixels, on a screen), and they sit between the user and a computer, they are GUIs.