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If you step back and look at these apps they basically are JS VMs with HTTP capabilities with a very powerful visual templating engine driven by HTML/CSS.
by mtrimpe 14y ago
If you step back and look at these apps they basically are JS VMs with HTTP capabilities with a very powerful visual templating engine driven by HTML/CSS.
- mattmanser 14y agoIt's not 'very powerful' at all. Have you used any other modern GUI templating engine?
- kitsune_ 14y agoWhat are those powerful GUI engines you talk of? I'm generally interested because most "modern" GUI frameworks seem to be huge, bloated and utterly messy. Conceptually, XML/QML/XAML and databinding, as used in QTQuick or WPF on the desktop, are not very different from mixing HTML and JavaScript frameworks such as angular.js on the web. I don't like the approach, be it on the desktop or with web applications. Are there alternatives?
- mtrimpe 14y agoI'm just talking about rendering a page based on what you specify in HTML/CSS, not the component model you might want to add behind. I'm pretty sure there's no technology more optimized for displaying content-rich visual information than HTML/CSS and the browser's rendering engines. It's that combined with the fact that this has been the lingua-france for every web-designer wishing to express himself for the past decade that makes it a winning combination...