It's been a while since I did any UI dev, and this thread has been very informative, thanks to everyone giving advice.
But man, the balkanization of OS GUIs and widgets should have been subjected to the same very public shame that IE6 was subjected to, and a standards body.
No wonder electron is so appealing.
There is no technical excuse for modern OS's to have converged on a very well designed crossplatform UI toolkit. It really does underlie so much of why people are fleeing desktop OSs for phones and tablets.
Does Microsoft Office still bake their entire own Windows UI/Widget stack?
But man, the balkanization of OS GUIs and widgets should have been subjected to the same very public shame that IE6 was subjected to, and a standards body.
No wonder electron is so appealing.
There is no technical excuse for modern OS's to have converged on a very well designed crossplatform UI toolkit. It really does underlie so much of why people are fleeing desktop OSs for phones and tablets.
Does Microsoft Office still bake their entire own Windows UI/Widget stack?