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by jklinger410 1057 days ago
It's funny how I hear that web platforms are the best and most consistent cross-platform GUI systems, but then building on that system is awful.

So I'm wondering if maybe this is just the nature of GUI. Where you have to give every single instruction, eat up a bunch of cycles, or it simply won't function as cross-platform.
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oneeyedpigeon 1057 days ago
I don't think it's that funny, given that "best" and "most consistent" are both highly subjective.

I am a huge fan of the HTML/CSS/JS stack—it's far, far easier to knock up simple GUI-based apps using those technologies than, for example, the Visual Basic / Delphi tools that we were all using beforehand. And, remember, apps are not really what HTML was ever intended for, so any kind of 'app' support is a big bonus.

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zdimension 1057 days ago
Funny, I grew up making GUI apps on VB (and then VB.NET) using Windows Forms and I've always found it really easy compared to the web stack. You're not fighting against a flow algorithm that was designed for documents, trying to position your widgets in ways NCSA Mosaic wouldn't ever had dreamt of, it just works.
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