[throwaway66666]

I agree with you that on desktop the situation is a bit different. I 've only played around with UI on OSX, and for some reason it is way harder than native ui on ios (old NextStep api vs UI api). Fonts are handled differently. The coordinate system is different (starting from the bottom left corner if I remember correctly). Coding for multiple screens; like tracking pointer position on windows on different screens is awkward. Lots and lots of legacy stuff.

Perhaps windows is better? What about linux? :p But I see why people are disliking the native ui situation on desktop.

[devwastaken]

Native UI is nice for system dialogs and programs associated with the system in some manner. I wouldn't want a harddrive formatting software to be using some transitioney css+js.

But I would want my media player, or chat application, or something that's meant to be a media-based experience to be well presented.