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Re:Tasks That Can Be Done with Pure HTML and CSS by null_content on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:58AM (#19134484)
Web development is such a pain because the standard is sub-par (decided by committee, so no surprises there) and the implementation is even worse (full of inter-vendor inconsistencies and missing features).

Frankly, last time I did web development, I felt tempted to just make the entire page one screen sized canvas and implement my own UI toolkit on it. That's bound to be more reliable (and probably faster) that the current state of affairs.

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Re:Tasks That Can Be Done with Pure HTML and CSS by shaki-dora on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:08AM (#19134537)
I, too, have fond memories of ca 1998 web development.
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Re:Tasks That Can Be Done with Pure HTML and CSS by null_content on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:27AM (#19134653)
Funny that you bring that up because in 1998, Tcl/Tk already had grid layouts (if I am not mistaken).

So yes, you are finally doing UI development like it is 1998.

Congratulations.

Sarcasm aside, want to know what a proper GUI toolkit looks like? Take some time to play around with Qt.

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