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astine on Oct 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dillo: A Tiny Graphical Web Browser

In choosing between presentation freedom and a sane GUI programming model, I'd choose the later, especially given that the 'presentation freedom' is problematic when I want my desktop to have a common UI theme. Take into account that modern GUI toolkits actually provide presentation freedom similar to the web without having to do without native widgets, I don't see why anyone would prefer web GUIs from a programming perspective.

TazeTSchnitzel on Oct 20, 2015 [–]

> modern GUI toolkits actually provide presentation freedom similar to the web

They let you change colours, typefaces and shapes slightly. You could do that with Windows 1.

That's not the same as what CSS allows (complete reconfiguration).

astine on Oct 21, 2015 | [–]

http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/api/javafx/scene/doc-files/c...

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