Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS UI Engine for Desktop and Mobile Applications

Re:Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS UI Engine for Desktop and... by jcelerier on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:45AM (#23164876)

> Lots of native UIs (especially from the past) tend to all have the same "grey boxes" look.

it's not "grey box", it's "uses the native theme of the user's desktop". e.g. I use strawberry music player, if I am on a computer with a dark theme it's dark.

Qt definitely allows slack-like look though if the developer opts-in to it - e.g. Telegram Desktop (https://cdn2.nextinpact.com/images/bd/news/163843.jpeg) is made with Qt Widgets.

Ripcord is another Qt app which is a discord / slack client made by a single guy, which goes more for the native look'n'feel : https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

(contrast this with slack needing dozens of developers and being at their third rewrite of the app because of performance issue :-))

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Re:Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS UI Engine for Desktop and... by The_Colonel on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:22AM (#23165395)

Interesting, I just assumed Telegram Desktop is electron app since it behaves similarly to one.

In the end I don't care how it's done as long as it works fine (which it does).

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Re:Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS UI Engine for Desktop and... by kienkien on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:35AM (#23165467)

"behaves similarly" How?

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Re:Sciter – Multiplatform HTML/CSS UI Engine for Desktop and... by The_Colonel on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:41AM (#23165501)

Besides Telegram, I have also electron based Rocket Chat and Slack (different teams, different apps :/) and all these apps look and feel very similar.

Telegram uses this non-native visual language which is very common in electron apps.

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