[criddell]

> Nothing beats that in terms of performance and small size

Native controls do. For example, Steve Gibson wrote a DNS benchmarking utility[1] and the executable is 159k. No matter what you do, an HTML & CSS is still being rendered by a slow interpreter.

BTW, when I clicked on that link for HTML GMail, Google made me click through a warning trying to scare me off. I'm not sure why they would care if I use the HTML version.

In the end, I don't think the speed of CSS + HTML controls matters much. It's limiting and not a great choice for an operating system UI toolkit.

[1]: https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

[zagrebian]

I don’t understand why you’re mentioning a DNS utility.

[criddell]

You couldn't write a web-based version that was anywhere near as fast and small. A browser sitting there showing a blank page is bigger.