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Comment by rob74 | Hacker News Reader

Yeah... why fiddle with GTK_Window_Context_Handler_Ptr if you can fiddle with the intricacies of CSS layouts instead?

Well, if you want to make things look pretty, which product owners and users expect, you’ll have to fiddle with cosmetic intricacies regardless.

Great thing is that as opposed to the web, the platform/library designers already took care of a lot of that, so the biggest overlap between GUI libraries and CSS is usually the layout (these days, where CSS isn't utterly abominable here).

A lot of the color fiddling etc. that web apps due is due to

1.) Graphic designers having no other way to go, now that print is dead

2.) Corporate Identity (which is of lower priority than platform identity)

3.) Selling stuff (not needed as much with desktop apps)

It's great when you want to outsource your or target a single platform but infeasible when you want to bring your own design or be the same across platforms.

And since most folks end up supporting the web as a first class platform you have to BYOD there anyway. Nobody is out there making a JS framework to emulate WinForms.

I thought this was about making things enticing to the scrum overlord, but sure…

Not everything has to or can be be cross-platform, not everything has to be web-visible. And I'd argue that serving the same view to everyone is quite often a bad idea. (Heck, in the web-case, it's not even just the view)

GTK uses CSS underneath.

Yeah, and it doesn't look native except on Linux.

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