JohnDeHope

3 mesi fadiscuss

I'd really like to see some FE folks kicking around what sorts of new form elements they'd put into HTML 6. I miss WinForms, component libraries, Silverlight, WPF, that sort of thing. Browsing the sea of components somebody like Telerik or Infragistics or DevExpress give you brings so many ideas to my mind. The web has nothing to show for decades of being in the limelight. We have buttons, textboxes, checkboxes, drop down lists... the end. Oh I guess we have date pickers now, and reasonable large text areas. I mean we build apps this way so it's not impossible to live like this. I'm just jealous of folks with Blazor and a component library license.

JohnDeHope

4 mesi fadiscuss

> cross platform GUIs are ugly by default, compared to fully native desktop apps, because they don't entirely replicate the affordances or the style of the platform;

I think this is an implementation detail. It's up to the software stack whether it leaves off before drawing the UI elements on screen, or goes ahead and takes on that responsibility too. The wxWidgets toolkit uses the runtime platform's UI, so it does not draw the widgets themselves. Java Swing took on the task of drawing the UI elements on the screen in its own style.

JohnDeHope

10 mesi fadiscuss

It’s true. I was more expressing a sentiment than suggesting a course of political or legislative action. I await my punishment.

JohnDeHope

10 mesi fadiscuss

As a Pasco county alumni, I think we should drop the people who want to drain the everglades off in the everglades and leave them in there until they gain an appreciation for the scenery.

JohnDeHope

10 mesi fadiscuss

I’m not a hacker but I really appreciate their ethos. It’s like punk. I’m not punk either. But I will defend it all with my dying breathe.

JohnDeHope

anno scorsodiscuss

I hate to be a hater, but having built myriad gaming PCs in my time, this doesn't really seem like much of a step forward. I'm hoping it's just the beginning. I'd love a modular plug-and-play PC parts ecosystem. This doesn't seem like that, yet.

JohnDeHope

3 anni fadiscuss

Which is more likely in our lifetime: aliens, or an ambient superconductor?

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