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Re:FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly by tasogare on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:30AM (#25219838)
HTML was never the problem. It is simple enough to be taught to non technical people. The issue is styling it, making it looks beautiful. And this is where the truth appears: HTML was not designed for building magazin-like pages but hypertext paper books. The very recent introduction of CSS grid shows it.

If HTML could be used as a collection of widget akin to Windows Forms, with an easy grid system (somewhat like XAML), there building an UI page creator would be easy, and user could edit the output unlike with the current tech.

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Re:FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly by svrtknst on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:01AM (#25220552)
What functionality is missing, in your mind, from Sqaurespace, Webflow, and Wix in order to classify them as UI page creators?
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Re:FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly by pmlnr on Thursday November 26, 2020 @11:49AM (#25221537)
A usable, fast, resource efficient website output in the end.
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Re:FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly by greggman3 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:59AM (#25220042)
Windows Forms (AFAIK) are not designed to handle multitude of screen formats. HTML/CSS is.
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