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Preach. HTML and CSS are markup languages for creating documents. Using them for GUI applications is wild and obviously a bad idea.


HTML is pretty bad (XUL was better), but (subset) of CSS is probably OK.


HTML isn't even a particularly good markup language for documents, web or otherwise.

> Using them for GUI applications is wild and obviously a bad idea.

I agree it's wild, but bad idea implies there are better options for cross platform applications with the same ease of distribution, and accessibility as the web.


Most major GUI frameworks operate on something very similar to HTML + CSS.


Can you elaborate? I don't see how this is true.


QML and XAML for example, or the layout authoring tools from Motif back in the day.




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