Posts: 1370 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
Quote:
Georg wrote:
Btw, MOS (and Amiga) people for (IMO) no real good reason are (or used to be) very allergic to UI or GUI libraries from other systems like Unix. For years it seemed to be the absolute horror for them to have something like a webbrowser which does not use the system (MUI or Intuition) gadgets for things like string gadgets or prop gadgets or cycle gadgets in web view ...
I think that is an unfair categorization. Both Microsoft and Apple made sure their bundled web browsers featured UI gadgets that closely resembled the look of each platform's native UI kits. I fail to see what could possibly be wrong about at least seeking to provide a consistent user experience in terms of look and behaviour.
In fact, given the flexibility of today's browser engines, it is actually perfectly possible to build a MUI-Webkit bridge that brings personalized MUI settings and gadgets to web views and enables web apps that are close to indistinguishable from native applications. It just needs one hard to find capable developer who is willing to spend a bit of time on it.
The bigger and more pervasive concern appears to be that anything using web technologies is bloated and inefficient by default, thus does not meet the high efficiency and technological purity standards for Commodore A* software.
