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They also often want to use web technologies and/or cross-platform GUI toolkits, to avoid reimplementing their UIs.
by MaxBarraclough 2y ago
They also often want to use web technologies and/or cross-platform GUI toolkits, to avoid reimplementing their UIs.
- eschaton 2y agoAnd all because they fundamentally believe that their development time and expense is worth way more than their customer’s time and expense.
- skydhash 2y agoI strongly believe that the amount of ironing they have to do for that crossplatform toolkit takes more time than just going with a common core and different UI shells.
- MaxBarraclough 2y agoNetflix took this to an extreme, apparently porting WebKit to the PS3 just to power their app's UI. With apologies for linking to such an appallingly spammy website, as I couldn't find a better one: https://www.engadget.com/2010-12-07-netflix-ported-webkit-to-the-ps3-to-enable-html5-goodies-a-dyna.html https://www.engadget.com/2010-12-07-netflix-ported-webkit-to...