[tomc1985]

Everyone celebrates this, as if it were something worth celebrating. Yet all I see is another stake through the heart of desktop and native UI.

[spankalee]

You don't think XBL was more native than HTML do you?

[tomc1985]

It was. It rendered to GTK which renders to native widgetry

[paulrouget]

Not more native than HTML.

[tomc1985]

Sure, when people didn't style buttons or text boxes, because those also used native widgets

[the8472]

it used native widgets

[paulrouget]

No. XBL was not "using" widgets. XBL is a binding language.

[marcosdumay]

Most people don't like native desktop UIs. What is a shame, because we still didn't get something as nice to program for the web.

[fnordsensei]

Oh boy, I've seen nothing to confirm this.

/user researcher (etc.)

[tomc1985]

Most people who? Under 25s?

[Yoric]

Personally, I'm not a big fan of native UIs, so fine by me.

[tomc1985]

Native UI has an austere, functional beauty that graphic-designer-infected web-native UI lacks

Plus I don't need half a dozen chromium processes just to run it

[Yoric]

> Native UI has an austere, functional beauty that graphic-designer-infected web-native UI lacks

Let's just say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder :)

> Plus I don't need half a dozen chromium processes just to run it

Yeah, I'll grant you that. Native UI is mostly likely more memory and cpu efficient.