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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by rootlocus on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:16AM (#16438065)
It's easy to learn, easy to make and easy to distribute, (at least in the beginning) which is why a disproportionate number of new developers start with web technologies.
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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by Aaargh20318 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:33AM (#16438200)
> It's easy to learn, easy to make

I disagree completely. It's easy to get a 'hello world' type thing working in HTML, sure, but it's very hard to make something behave like you want. Traditional UI toolkits are much simpler and easier to understand.

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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by lou1306 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:49AM (#16438340)
Exhibit A: CSS centering. Exhibit B: The so-called "Holy Grail" layout. [^1]

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_grail_(web_design)

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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by bfrydl on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:32PM (#16440638)
This is really out of date. Even IE11 supports flexbox. It is trivial to center things both vertically and horizontally, and easy to make a “Holy Grail” layout.

If you don't need to support IE11 you can use CSS Grid and do the entire layout in one or two CSS properties.

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