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Preach. HTML and CSS are markup languages for creating documents. Using them for GUI applications is wild and obviously a bad idea.

• silon42 1y ago
  HTML is pretty bad (XUL was better), but (subset) of CSS is probably OK.
• chrismorgan 1y ago
  Most major GUI frameworks operate on something very similar to HTML + CSS.
  • jesse__ 1y ago
    Can you elaborate? I don't see how this is true.
    • pjmlp 1y ago
      QML and XAML for example, or the layout authoring tools from Motif back in the day.
• notnullorvoid 1y ago
  HTML isn't even a particularly good markup language for documents, web or otherwise. > Using them for GUI applications is wild and obviously a bad idea. I agree it's wild, but bad idea implies there are better options for cross platform applications with the same ease of distribution, and accessibility as the web.