Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 12058 from 2003/5/22
From: Germany
>> Unless I misunderstand takemehomegrandma, his idea involves
>> a real MUI GUI for the controls of the program.
> To me, it is rather obvious that he wrote his comment from user
> and not a developer perspective.
Seems we are interpreting what he wrote ("
make it possible for the web-app and MUI-app to communicate" in comment #81 and "
That was exactly my point!" in comment #84) very differently ;-)
> this can be achieved with a webview
as well.
Yes, of course, the look and behaviour of a MUI GUI can be recreated in HTML/CSS/JS. One issue that comes to mind is how to keep the UIs consistent in an automatic way when the user changes his MUI settings, though.
> The main appeal of hybrid apps is that you can rapidly create software to fill
> important holes in your software pool. By setting up arbitrary purity rules, it is
> easy to kill any attractive qualities that hybrid apps might otherwise have to offer.
I very much share this general notion, but then the MorphOS team's points against provision of an X11 server (see AmiCygnix, where
visual integration into the OS-native UI has been increased once more with the current release) come to mind ;-)