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Really? I find the Steam app on OSX awful - super slow and unresponsive. They do this in some of their games too - DotA 2 comes to mind - and it's so obvious th

Really? I find the Steam app on OSX awful - super slow and unresponsive. They do this in some of their games too - DotA 2 comes to mind - and it's so obvious that's not native when you're using it.

seanalltogether 13y ago
Oh I agree, the steam client is one of the worst pieces of software I have on my mac, but I don't think using html to layout the store is the source of their problems. The mac app store exhibits none of the issues I see with steam.
prezjordan 13y ago
Not just OSX, it's sloppy on Windows too. I'm not sure what UI Toolkit they're using, but they should do a complete overhaul.
- Vbits 13y ago
  Steam is based on Valve's own custom UI Engine, the same one used by most of their games.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
  Something in-house, which they have no choice but to use because of the in-game overlay.
kazagistar 13y ago
That's because it has to load content remotely. Any UI is shitty when trapped behind a huge network latency.