It does feel like 'hacking' quite often to get special UIs done in HTML.
What do you think is a better platform for the web?
That meets similar requirements: - fast to deploy/load cross platform - accessible to build with
What do you think is a better platform for the web?
That meets similar requirements: - fast to deploy/load cross platform - accessible to build with
For the application-like stuff… there was some good and some bad in Java applets, Flex, and Silverlight but none of that had a barrier as low as HTML/CSS/JS.
I think the way forward is for HTML and the DOM is to adopt ideas from the framework space (like one/two-way binding) and expose more high-level UI elements out of the box.
Just imagine something like:
<script>
const myDataTable = new DataTable()
myDataTable.head = ["Foo", "Bar", "Baz"]
myDataTable.items = [[1, 2, 3],[4, 5, 6]]
</script>
<table binding="myDataTable" class="my-data-table" sortable />