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This is a great comment. I'm pretty sure every non-trivial website would be better specified (as opposed to HTML) in almost any measurable way (LOC, clarity, et
by RandyRanderson 5y ago
This is a great comment. I'm pretty sure every non-trivial website would be better specified (as opposed to HTML) in almost any measurable way (LOC, clarity, etc) in say raw opengl.
Yes, creating a UI in an immediate mode tech would be pretty hard - still easier than HTML/CSS.
I'd love to see someone prove me right: Take any non-trivial site like twitter, facebook.com, whatever and reproduce it with opengl/d3d or whatever. I bet it will be less LOC (incl all the libs the source website includes), more clear, easier to extend, faster to draw, et cetera.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoI’d love to see someone try and epicly fail to even render legible text. I have a feeling this thread is seriously underappreciating how many things browsers get right for them.
- RandyRanderson 5y agoTo be clear, I think the authors of the browsers have in general done a heroic job. I'm not talking about the browser impl, I'm impugning HTML and CSS as UI specification mechanisms.