Re:It is hard to avoid JavaScript
by moritzwarhier on Sunday February 25, 2024 @02:25PM
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Fair point. There surely is a space for new tools of this kind.
All that is needed to build such a tool is available.
I think you are talking about a developer-focused tool you mentioned WinForms.
The largest issue building something like this is probably what the input (widgets/components) and output formats (a layout description to be consumed by some framework like react? or pure HTML/CSS?) should be.
It needs to be integrated with the code, and we're leaving pure HTML/CSS territory here for purely technical reasons.
The web still has no proper native component abstraction.
Outputting pure HTML/CSS wouldn't be very useful to me, but might still be cool to visually design layouts, and be useful in some cases.
All that is needed to build such a tool is available.
I think you are talking about a developer-focused tool you mentioned WinForms.
The largest issue building something like this is probably what the input (widgets/components) and output formats (a layout description to be consumed by some framework like react? or pure HTML/CSS?) should be.
It needs to be integrated with the code, and we're leaving pure HTML/CSS territory here for purely technical reasons.
The web still has no proper native component abstraction.
Outputting pure HTML/CSS wouldn't be very useful to me, but might still be cool to visually design layouts, and be useful in some cases.