The State of the GUI

[Adam Wilson]

On 10/25/18 1:47 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 23:30:50 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> On 10/24/18 4:41 AM, Kagamin wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 06:20:05 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>>>> Native toolkits are a dead-end. The future of non-Web UX is non-native.
>>>
>>> Last I checked Microsoft bets its money on cloud, asp.net core and 
>>> typescript. See where the wind blows?
>>
>> Yes. All of those are server-side technologies. How does that relate 
>> to a discussion about GUI technologies?
> 
> They have corresponding client-side technologies, which are the GUI. Web 
> is the better solution for all problems you speak about.
> 
> On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 06:20:05 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> Another is that in my experience even native toolkits, such as DWT, 
>> that can be used to build cross-platform interfaces tend to produce 
>> mixed results. You run into a plethora of minor issues surrounding 
>> differing Fonts/Paddings/Margins etc. So even though the toolkit 
>> itself may be cross platform you still need to create three separate 
>> interfaces to iron out these small but noticeable details. Electron 
>> and non-native widgets solve these problems entirely.
> 
> If only web did it right. In theory it can, but in practice it does it 
> rarely. https://abload.de/img/tmpfzfuo.png is 
> https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/ - a web design awards site, see the 
> fonts and margins. And most cheap sites including google do it like this.

No arguments from me. So let's do it right.

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Adam Wilson
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