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I wish more front-end stuff was oriented this way. This is how I want front-end coding to be: Rattle off what I need, semantically, and then by default it wil

I wish more front-end stuff was oriented this way. This is how I want front-end coding to be: Rattle off what I need, semantically, and then by default it will be styled and presented in a sensible way. Then later, if our company stylist want our apps to look a particular kind of fancy, he can configure some styling that will apply to all. This is also why I hate Windows WPF so much: If you just add a label, a field, and two OK/Cancel buttons to a form, it will look horrendous by default. Only if you manually or deliberately set up some styling for it, will it start to look sensible. I want gui frameworks to look sensible out-of-the-box, without cluttering everything with piles of boilerplate crap.

dotancohen 5y ago
You might want to look into Qt for the native stuff. It's naturally cross-platform, but it also looks terrific too. It's got bindings for at least C++ and Python, it might have bindings for C# or wherever you're using WPF.
disadvantage 5y ago
> Only if you manually or deliberately set up some styling for it, will it start to look sensible I used to love those Javascript/jQuery widgets that attempted to create a whole new bespoke alternative to native form widgets, but I much prefer the OS to style them for me, since the JS (or even CSS) variants can break and look/feel borked on different devices. Inherited system UI FTW
createunderrate 5y ago
> Rattle off what I need, semantically, and then by default it will be styled and presented in a sensible way. Then later, if our company stylist want our apps to look a particular kind of fancy, he can configure some styling that will apply to all. You should check out Cascading Style Sheets. They let you write your document semantically in HTML, and then it is styled by a separate document created by the company stylist.
- 9935c101ab17a66 5y ago
  Don’t know if the sarcasm was warranted, but you do make a valid point. The parent commenter does say they want something that “looks good” out of box, which I styled html does not.

dotancohen 5y ago

You might want to look into Qt for the native stuff. It's naturally cross-platform, but it also looks terrific too. It's got bindings for at least C++ and Python, it might have bindings for C# or wherever you're using WPF.

disadvantage 5y ago

> Only if you manually or deliberately set up some styling for it, will it start to look sensible I used to love those Javascript/jQuery widgets that attempted to create a whole new bespoke alternative to native form widgets, but I much prefer the OS to style them for me, since the JS (or even CSS) variants can break and look/feel borked on different devices. Inherited system UI FTW

createunderrate 5y ago

> Rattle off what I need, semantically, and then by default it will be styled and presented in a sensible way. Then later, if our company stylist want our apps to look a particular kind of fancy, he can configure some styling that will apply to all. You should check out Cascading Style Sheets. They let you write your document semantically in HTML, and then it is styled by a separate document created by the company stylist.

9935c101ab17a66 5y ago
Don’t know if the sarcasm was warranted, but you do make a valid point. The parent commenter does say they want something that “looks good” out of box, which I styled html does not.