OSCON 2012 notes

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Mon Jul 23 04:47:52 PDT 2012


On 2012-07-23 13:21, Michel Fortin wrote:

> Abstraction layers for GUI are not inherently bad, but they also tend to
> blur platform specificities. This often results in apps that feel a
> little alien on every platform. So whether you should use them or not
> depends on your priorities.

I think a system where the common widgets, i.e. windows, buttons and 
similar, are abstracted but still lets you easily access the native API 
would be a good thing. This mean you would still need to be able to 
access the Objective-C and WinRT object model to be really useful.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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