Using HTML/CSS for UI design on the web[0] makes sense in that you don't really have an alternative besides embeds like Flash, Java, etc.
But surely it's non-optimal for native applications that have direct access to the native renderer and GUI systems, or at least to limit them to HTML and CSS and not some more optimal domain specific subset of XML?
[0]assuming one accepts the premise that "web apps" should even be a thing, which I know is controversial on HN to say the least...
But surely it's non-optimal for native applications that have direct access to the native renderer and GUI systems, or at least to limit them to HTML and CSS and not some more optimal domain specific subset of XML?
[0]assuming one accepts the premise that "web apps" should even be a thing, which I know is controversial on HN to say the least...