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Re:The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js by pjmlp on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @01:28PM (#8730762)
I have lots of UI toolkits under my belt since the mid-80's, been doing web development on and off since the .com days.

When compared with RAD tooling like Delphi or XAML, HTML/CSS/JS is anything but easy.

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Re:The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js by gagege on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @01:33PM (#8730795)
Even WinForms is a breeze compared to all the quirks of the web.
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Re:The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js by organsnyder on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @01:48PM (#8730879)
Web becomes a lot easier when you limit your target platforms. If you're shipping a thin browser-based shell around a web app and you know that you need to target Android 2.0+, iOS 6+, and Windows Phone 7, then you already know that you can eliminate many rendering engines (Firefox, Opera) as well as some of the old browser versions (IE < 10) that are usually the most problematic.
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Re:The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js by pjmlp on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @02:26PM (#8731124)
Try to explain to customers holding payments, why the web page looks different across multiple handsets using the same browser.
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