Web UI is fine for web applications, obviously.
replyBut for desktop applications it is bloated, a big attack surface.
HTML/CSS is made for online documents, and using it for applications is a bit hack that happen to work, but hides a huge ton of complexity behind frameworks and frameworks of frameworks with leaky abstractions and each their own caveat.
> a big attack surface
replyWdym? At least web apps are sandboxed by default in contrast to native.
web UI is slow, this is only reason when I don't it.
replysaving this comment, this echos my own thinking, html is not great but its better than dealing with all those things you listed.
replySecond this. Html is just so darn universal now
reply