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It's called Broadway: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/broadway.html https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/broadway.html
by arghwhat 3y ago
It's called Broadway: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/broadway.html https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/broadway.html
- wg0 3y agoImpressive. Web was very primitive back then compared to how it is today. I think there was no flex, no grids, no ESM modules even. It might not sound impressive in 2024 but back then, it was a huge deal. Very daring to even attempt something like that IMHO. It was a time of YUI, jQuery, ExtJS, script.aculo.us and such.
- toyg 3y agoQML pre-dates it by a year or so, it's basically in the same vein. Everyone wanted to co-opt web-devs for desktop development at that point.
- actionfromafar 3y agoHaha, they got quite a bit more than they bargained for. Hello Electron.
- toyg 3y agoLol yeah. In a way, most people kinda got where the industry was moving to, but desktop toolkits moved too slowly and effectively got left in the dust.
- deaddodo 3y agoIt literally just rendered to a Canvas framebuffer. It's really not that crazy. I mean cool, yes....but it wasn't generating DOM elements/complex HTML or anything like you're trying to sell it as.