Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
by Aaargh20318 on Monday September 12, 2016 @08:45AM
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AWT, Swing, Cocoa/CocoaTouch, Android, GTK+, QT, VCL, SWT, XAML, XUL, J2ME Polish are the one's I've used.
If I had to write a Web application I would probably start by writing a UI toolkit from scratch based on HTML5 Canvas and just bypass the whole HTML/CSS nastiness. I've written UI toolkits from scratch before (all the way down to the text rendering engine) and even that was probably less work than trying to work around HTML's mess.
If I had to write a Web application I would probably start by writing a UI toolkit from scratch based on HTML5 Canvas and just bypass the whole HTML/CSS nastiness. I've written UI toolkits from scratch before (all the way down to the text rendering engine) and even that was probably less work than trying to work around HTML's mess.