[atoav]

As somebody who deals with HTML and CSS often I like the idea to be able to use these layout skills in a desktop GUI.

But size and speed matter (you don’t see much elektron based games..). We as a humanity can’t just always build faster and more powerful computers and then let developers throw these gains away by building more elaborate Rube-Goldberg-machines, that take 100 times the space they need, running more things taking the same old time we are used to wait, with dependencies no single human ever checked at once.

Many of same people who waste tremendous amounts of energy and collective human time writing ineffective applications might end up to be really pro-environmentalists outside their job, but when it comes to computers suddenly we don’t care. As long as it is acceptable on a new machine, who cares, right?

It would be entirely possible to write perfectly fast and efficient GUI applications using HTML and CSS as layout engines without dragging whole browsers into this. Using system webview might not be the solution. But maybe something that doesn’t feel like it has been taped together with duct tape would help. A fully fleged browser engine for a desktop app is overkill in most common usecases and while I understand why one decides for Elektron, I’d rather see a really thought out solution than one that has been duct taped together.

[arvinsim]

> Many of same people who waste tremendous amounts of energy and collective human time writing ineffective applications might end up to be really pro-environmentalists outside their job, but when it comes to computers suddenly we don’t care. As long as it is acceptable on a new machine, who cares, right?

This is such a privileged thing to say. I would guess there are far more important environmental problems to worry about. There are also more things that can be done that have more impact.

> It would be entirely possible to write perfectly fast and efficient GUI applications using HTML and CSS as layout engines without dragging whole browsers into this. Using system webview might not be the solution. But maybe something that doesn’t feel like it has been taped together with duct tape would help. A fully fleged browser engine for a desktop app is overkill in most common usecases and while I understand why one decides for Elektron, I’d rather see a really thought out solution than one that has been duct taped together.

Convince platform owners to agree on a common spec for GUI that's implemented consistently. Otherwise, what you want will ever remain a pipe dream.