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by mike_hearn
3193 days ago
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Sane layout control for apps was a solved problem 15 years ago (well, for some definition of sane). Look at toolkits like Swing, GTK2, Qt, heck even Cocoa has better layout control for apps than HTML. Flexbox is essentially an import of those concepts to CSS. There are no new ideas there. But now flip it around and try to make a beautiful, responsive document in Swing or GTK. The layout managers that make them so great for laying out UIs won't help you much there. They can do it, they have layout managers that operate somewhat like a CSS box flow, but it won't be as natural or as easy. So it's worth considering if it's easier to evolve HTML towards sane layout management for app-like things, or GUI toolkits towards sane layout management for document-like things. |
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