Ideal D GUI Toolkit

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:58:24 -0700
"Adam Wilson" <flyboynw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:36:11 -0700, Nick Sabalausky  
> <SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com> wrote:
> > With only a brief, cursory understanding of the current
> > state-of-the-art, any attempts to "advance the field" automatically
> > carry a high risk of *regression* under the false guise of
> > advancement.
> >
> > And I strongly believe that's already been happening *a lot* over
> > the past decade. Wheels are being reinvented, only this time most
> > of them are squares.
> >
> >
> 
> Well arguably that regression in markup based UI was WPF. They made a
> lot of mistakes that to this day murder performance and the markup is
> pretty bulky. But they've gone backed and fixed a lot of the perf and
> markup issues with WinRT, and I am seeing some better markups in
> newer toolkits that look like they learned from WPF. But arguably
> HTML/CSS was the first, and IMHO they made WAY to many mistakes there
> and only now just starting to catch up to where WPF was in 2005.
> 

Well, I wasn't really directing that at anything in particular, whether
UI markups or otherwise. Just a general comment. Although many of the
specific instances I have in mind *do* involve the web.