OT: GUI Libraries

[Nick Sabalausky]

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> Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:54:39 -0400, Chad J thusly wrote:
>
>> Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
>>
>>> We can make programs that switch between GUI backends, most just don't
>>> go in that direction. Its as easy as graphics engines having GL and DX
>>> backends for their render system.
>
> Web 2.0 toolkits are platform neutral. You can define your own GUI with
> javascript & html & css. The interfaces (ajax, javascript, css, html,
> xml) have all been standardized. The objects on the GUI also do not waste
> low level handles like the traditional GUI toolkits do. I am sure that
> more locally usable Web 2.0 desktop applications are coming in the next
> few years.

That stuff is just plain garbage. It inevitably breaks when JS is disabled 
(and there are damn good reasons for doing so), and trying to put web apps 
on the desktop is just plain ass-backwards: web-apps are shit period, people 
should be trying to make desktop apps run on the web instead.