What Features Should A GUI toolkit have?

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:34:14 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:

> On Friday, 6 March 2015 at 10:55:34 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> wow, what a shitload of crap! exactly what i mean when i wrote "most
>> people doing it wrong".
> 
> Describe what is right?

i did alot of times. Smalltalk, Oberon, BCB. old Symbolics Lisp machines 
to some extent. ;-) BlueBottle OS.

> To most developers, doing it right means saving developer time and if
> possible push "design declarative programming" onto designers.

and most of the tools that are trying to help with that fails miserably. 
i still remember how fast, easy and fun everything was in BlackBox 
Component Builder. words are nothing, you have to work with it (not play, 
but work) to feel it's unique power.

> Which is basically what shadow-dom allows you to do. There are some
> quirks with styling still, but there is overall progress.

it doesn't matter how much they advancing wheelchairs, wheelchairs will 
never become Lamborghinis.
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