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speed_spread | 3 days ago

We had Delphi and VB thirty years ago and the native UIs were pretty good. The web brought a massive regression in UI programming, functionality and usability that we generally haven't recovered from yet. Not every app can be a web site.

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Ygg2|3 days ago

Sure. It was a simpler time.

Web didn't make massive regression in UI, it made minimum feature set huge.

pjmlp|3 days ago

So simple that layout managers were already a thing, even if Electron kiddies have no idea about them in native UIs.

By the 2000's doing pixel perfect native UI was a sign of being lazy to learn UI best practices.