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HTML+CSS started as basically a desktop publishing technology, but that's not the case anymore. There's fantastic support nowadays for building app experiences,
by acjohnson55 4y ago
HTML+CSS started as basically a desktop publishing technology, but that's not the case anymore. There's fantastic support nowadays for building app experiences, from the perspective of layout and interactivity. Fair point on system-wide customization, although I really don't miss it. Maybe it's the experience of the web, but it no longer seems weird to me that apps have different design paradigms. But realistically, desktop hasn't had unified design since Java applications started becoming popular 20 years ago.
- dmitriid 4y ago> There's fantastic support nowadays for building app experiences, from the perspective of layout and interactivity. As long as you, you know, do no complex layouts or interactivity. It's still a system for displaying static text documents, and no amount of lipstick can change that without re-doing the entire thing. If you think it's not the case, animate adding a height:auto element to a list without the browser needing to re-layout and redraw the entire page