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by oblio 3039 days ago
The browser is a cross platform UI, yes.

But is it on-par with native offerings? Where are the standardized components? How many years did it take to get a simple grid layout present in Tk back in 1991? Where's the fool-proof GUI editor? How long did it take for it to have a date input?

The web had to fight its way to where it is now. And that's why it has so many scars (besides the self-inflicted DOM and Javascript before strict mode and ECMAScript 5).

Regarding the OS vendors, well, yes, kernels, tools, basic apps. Also not all applications are graphical.
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concerned_user 3039 days ago
Native offerings kinda suck too I don't know any standardized one. Swing, QT, GTK all look different depending on the OS.

Before web stack there was Flash it had hardware access but it was insecure, now web tech going the same way with web assembly and webgl.

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s73v3r_ 3039 days ago
"Swing, QT, GTK all look different depending on the OS."

They're supposed to. They're fitting in with the OS's native look and feel. And that's a GOOD THING.

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