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Impressive. 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 impressi
by wg0 3y ago
Impressive. 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.