Hi,
the one thing, that annoys the hell out of me with HTML based GUIs is, that everybody reinvents everything, everytime. >From my perspective the best part of Swing is, that it is boring and just works. I need a Menu? Ok its there. I need a basic layout, its there, I need a toolbar. Its there. With HTML I have literally have to get to basics everytime I do something. This is like coding all java GUIs with Java2D. Noone does this. So there are a gazillion of applications, which all feel different, are handled different and all reinvent the wheel. There are a few java script frameworks, that reserve, that they solved the problem, but they are hyped for one or two years and next year another hyped framework appears. _This_ is the problem. The moment you coded something it is not current anymore. So the next flamewar will be: * which renderer to choose * which JS framework * which design * which component framework And one year later someone will come around: * why did you not choose framework A? * lets rewrite the GUI with component framework B! * I like way C much better - your code looks like crap! Lets change everything! I want components, that survive > 5 years, without the need to rebuild everything. You find a web component, that is capable of rendering HTML5 (with all bells and whistles), I'm ok with intergrating it, but religiously changing working code, I'm not ok with. before the component is integrated there are big questions: * how stable is the multiplatform development for that component? * who maintains the component? * are they really more committed to the component itself, than oracle is to Swing? I'll observe what will happen here in regards to this, but won't put energy into working for that. Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
