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Re:PS4 UX is powered by WebGL by tomhschmidt on Friday November 15, 2013 @02:52PM (#6741730)
Really? I find the Steam app on OSX awful - super slow and unresponsive. They do this in some of their games too - DotA 2 comes to mind - and it's so obvious that's not native when you're using it.
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Re:PS4 UX is powered by WebGL by seanalltogether on Friday November 15, 2013 @03:04PM (#6741792)
Oh I agree, the steam client is one of the worst pieces of software I have on my mac, but I don't think using html to layout the store is the source of their problems. The mac app store exhibits none of the issues I see with steam.
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Re:PS4 UX is powered by WebGL by prezjordan on Friday November 15, 2013 @03:43PM (#6742036)
Not just OSX, it's sloppy on Windows too. I'm not sure what UI Toolkit they're using, but they should do a complete overhaul.
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Re:PS4 UX is powered by WebGL by Vbits on Friday November 15, 2013 @04:40PM (#6742323)
Steam is based on Valve's own custom UI Engine, the same one used by most of their games.
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Re:PS4 UX is powered by WebGL by TazeTSchnitzel on Saturday November 16, 2013 @04:07AM (#6744228)
Something in-house, which they have no choice but to use because of the in-game overlay.
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Re:PS4 UX is powered by WebGL by kazagistar on Friday November 15, 2013 @04:14PM (#6742183)
That's because it has to load content remotely. Any UI is shitty when trapped behind a huge network latency.
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