Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser
by the_real_nfm on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @10:13AM
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A lot of native "apps" have either very flexible configuration, or some sort of scripting/plugin framework. Maybe not iTunes, but things like foobar2000 or conky.
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Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser
by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @10:47AM
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A few do. But most do not offer the incredible user presentation freedom the web does.
In choosing between presentation freedom and a sane GUI programming model, I'd choose the later, especially given that the 'presentation freedom' is problematic when I want my desktop to have a common UI theme. Take into account that modern GUI toolkits actually provide presentation freedom similar to the web without having to do without native widgets, I don't see why anyone would prefer web GUIs from a programming perspective.
Re:Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser
by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @06:45PM
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> modern GUI toolkits actually provide presentation freedom similar to the web
They let you change colours, typefaces and shapes slightly. You could do that with Windows 1.
That's not the same as what CSS allows (complete reconfiguration).