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I never fully understood why we couldn't have the VB/Winform model of building GUI on the web. Is it because we need the designer skinnable GUI? With WebAssembl
by wolpoli 4y ago
I never fully understood why we couldn't have the VB/Winform model of building GUI on the web. Is it because we need the designer skinnable GUI? With WebAssembly and CSS grid layout, could we finally get a modernize VB/Winform?
- BiteCode_dev 4y agoThere are plenty of services that offers that. Even MS used to provide that with frontpage. The real answer to your question lies in why people don't use them much.
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoBecause they used to produce dubious code leading to poor rendering result. I would like to say the Web was poorly designed but that would be too generous. The Web wasn’t designed at all. It’s a hodgepodge of poorly thought out technologies hastily cobbled together. It’s a piece of technology designed to display static textual content horribly contorted to make applications. It took decades for JS and CSS to reach a state I consider barely useable and the best we could do is apparently flexbox.
- illiarian 4y ago> and the best we could do is apparently flexbox. And grid. The contortions you have to go through to get the equivalent of early 2000 Qt's spacer items and anchors...
- illiarian 4y agoBecause the web has nothing to facilitate that. Almost literally nothing: from rich components to data handling to control over rendering if needed. So the VB/Winform model of building GUI on the web has to re-invent all controls from scratch, then all dat abinfding from scratch, then...