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Even if I am not sure it would be even legal to port that to iOS with Apple's restrictions on the Web Engines they accept in the Store.
I have never used this but something better for GUI would be great even if commercial; what I miss (as a native GUI dev) with all(? if you know any besides framework7 which is basically only mobile) of these html/css frameworks is that there is no equivalent of a control library that can be rapidly used without using (bucketloads) of css. When you browse the examples you see that most have some desktop controls like…
Not web/HTML though, uses native widgets directly (mostly).
HTML/CSS based native interfaces are some of the hardest to use, least reliable, least accessible, least robust interfaces I encounter; The demo interfaces on their website all fit into the unusable pot. I admit most/all of the interfaces I've personal used are using electron/webkit/ie to render which are all quite bloated. Is this different? It's not entirely clear and would be an important differentiator. I still d…
https://i.imgur.com/K44tJ2Y.png
Lots of native UIs (especially from the past) tend to all have the same "grey boxes" look. I don't see how that's universally better.
Another example was this part of Slack UI https://i.imgur.com/O71fdP5.png - how would you even do something like that with a typical native library? It would certainly take a lot more effort if you had to build that from a limited set of pre-existing components, instead of relying on the more free-form "rectangles and text" building blocks of the web.
Sciter is a small company (single person ?) project, but the list of enterprise clients is an assurance.
Their flavor of Javascript (TIscript) diverged from ECMAScipt more than 10 years ago, so there would be syntax switching involved when developing in Sciter and doing normal web development in parallel. There are similar issues with the DOM and CSS. But the list of included libraries certainly look like it could compensate for some of that, with implementations that can mimic modern features like promises and CSS3 transitions. [1]
Also, as far as I can see it is not truly cross-platform, i.e. it can not easily be deployed to mobile.
Pricing (even if fair comparatively) and the closed source is also a roadblock (for me). There was a thread by the author on Reddit some time back that vented the idea of open-sourcing the library. That could tip the balance (for me). [2]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13057526
[1] https://sciter.com/download/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a8vkzm/scitern...
HTML/CSS based native interfaces are some of the hardest to use, least reliable, least accessible, least robust interfaces I encounter; The demo interfaces on their website all fit into the unusable pot. I admit most/all of the interfaces I've personal used are using electron/webkit/ie to render which are all quite bloated. Is this different? It's not entirely clear and would be an important differentiator. I still d…
HTML/CSS based native interfaces are some of the hardest to use, least reliable, least accessible, least robust interfaces I encounter; The demo interfaces on their website all fit into the unusable pot. I admit most/all of the interfaces I've personal used are using electron/webkit/ie to render which are all quite bloated. Is this different? It's not entirely clear and would be an important differentiator. I still d…
I had a similar discussion on reddit a long time ago, and posted this screenshot of various Linux music players compared to Spotify. https://i.imgur.com/K44tJ2Y.png Lots of native UIs (especially from the past) tend to all have the same "grey boxes" look. I don't see how that's universally better. Another example was this part of Slack UI https://i.imgur.com/O71fdP5.png - how would you even do something like that wit…
This looks quite good and pricing seems reasonable. I wonder why I’ve not come across it before. Anyone have experience of this vs Electron?
HTML/CSS based native interfaces are some of the hardest to use, least reliable, least accessible, least robust interfaces I encounter; The demo interfaces on their website all fit into the unusable pot. I admit most/all of the interfaces I've personal used are using electron/webkit/ie to render which are all quite bloated. Is this different? It's not entirely clear and would be an important differentiator. I still d…
I had a similar discussion on reddit a long time ago, and posted this screenshot of various Linux music players compared to Spotify. https://i.imgur.com/K44tJ2Y.png Lots of native UIs (especially from the past) tend to all have the same "grey boxes" look. I don't see how that's universally better. Another example was this part of Slack UI https://i.imgur.com/O71fdP5.png - how would you even do something like that wit…
Your examples of boring native UI is the result of developers that don’t bother to exploit these features for whatever reasons- probably because it can be extremely time consuming to build native custom UI and adds mental overhead unless one has/is a dedicated designer/artist.
I’m not sure which part of the Slack UI you believe can’t be done natively? Flat colors or the revealing menu?
