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> Great. Another person complaining about something they can just choose not to use, criticising a pet project as if it is intended to be something that will ch
by Levitating 2y ago
> Great. Another person complaining about something they can just choose not to use, criticising a pet project as if it is intended to be something that will change the world.
That's fair. I am just upset with a general shift away from simple, accessible cross-platform GUI libraries to complicated web apps.
Literally any GUI toolkit has a textbox widget. You could make a cross-platform qt text editor in 100~ lines of Python.
> as much as I like Firefox, that doesn't seem to me to be NotepadJs's doing.
Well NotepadJS chose to create a PWA that can only be used in Chrome and Opera. Though like you said, it's just a pet project.
- pvg 2y agoI am just upset with a general shift away A Show HN, and really, most HN threads aren't the place to vent about this. It's even mentioned in the site docs: Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.
- dspillett 2y ago> Well NotepadJS chose to create a PWA that can only be used in Chrome and Opera. Is there another way that I'm unaware of to conveniently edit arbitrary local files in a browser that has wider support (or anything upcoming that doesn't have much support yet)?