IMO native widgets are dead. Users have become accustomed to the graphical gimmicks that are easy with a full-blown browser rendering engine. Even a resizable

IMO native widgets are dead. Users have become accustomed to the graphical gimmicks that are easy with a full-blown browser rendering engine. Even a resizable background image is really hard to do with pure native widgets. This means cross-platform libraries that wrap native widgets are dead as well. Now you need to ship your own rendering engine, and suddenly an entire browser looks reasonable. E.g. JavaFX isn't a featherweight either...