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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by CivBase on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:26PM (#21841706)
Web pages are constrained by the functionality made available to them by the browser - which is (purposely) very limited. Electron apps run on a native JavaScript interpreter (NodeJS) and have full access to the OS.

As far as UI inconsitencies go, most libraries I have used for native apps (Qt, Swing, Tk, etc) also do not feature UI elements that are consistent with the OS. Many developers simply can't afford to support multiple UIs just because they subjectively look a bit better.

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Re:Building a new Windows 3.1 app in 2019: A Slack Client by yellowapple on Friday December 20, 2019 @04:15PM (#21847433)
> most libraries I have used for native apps (Qt, Swing, Tk, etc) also do not feature UI elements that are consistent with the OS

Huh? Okay, maybe Swing doesn't support native-looking widgets (I have less experience with it), but I can personally attest that Qt and Tk (or more precisely Ttk) apps nowadays use a platform-native look-and-feel on Windows, macOS, and Linux alike, by default (i.e. with zero effort on the part of the app developer). It might not be absolutely pixel perfect, but it's way closer than an Electron app.

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