I humbly disagree. Last time I played with Swing layouts I remember them being able to do responsive UIs even better than HTML.
The only thing that web does better is more existing layouts out of the box. That's just a matter of people not technology. Gili On Sat, Mar 17, 2018, 07:39 <[email protected]> wrote: > Fully agree, and Swing and JavaFX stopped development before the concept > of "responsive UIs" became popular. So they have nothing for that. > > I agree that layout via css used to be painful and hard to understand > sometimes, but Flow and especially Grid Layout has completely solved this > for me. > > --Toni > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Neil C Smith <[email protected]> > Gesendet: Samstag, 17. März 2018 11:06 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: Usability study was: Think Java, not Electron! was: Apache > HTML/Java UI > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2018, 07:34 Dmitry Avtonomov, <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > All I'm saying is that with the last N years of unprecedented > > attention the web technologies have leaped light years ahead of > > everything else in terms of basic UI. > > ... > > All I need is a good framework on top of swing that would help me out > > with those things. In JS there's probably 100s. > > > > You could probably manage all the validation and error display > requirements you mention with HTML5's built in form validation without > adding any JS at all. > > As someone working heavily with both Swing and HTML/CSS I find the idea > that Swing's layouts are better quite amusing, or I would if I didn't have > to fight with them so often! ;-) Mig is about the only one I use from code, > Matisse is good but I find its output counterintuitive sometimes. > > Best wishes, > > Neil > > > -- > Neil C Smith > Artist & Technologist > www.neilcsmith.net > > Praxis LIVE - hybrid visual IDE for creative coding - www.praxislive.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
