On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:58:24 -0700 "Adam Wilson" <flybo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:36:11 -0700, Nick Sabalausky > <seewebsitetocontac...@semitwist.com> wrote: > > With only a brief, cursory understanding of the current > > state-of-the-art, any attempts to "advance the field" automatically > > carry a high risk of *regression* under the false guise of > > advancement. > > > > And I strongly believe that's already been happening *a lot* over > > the past decade. Wheels are being reinvented, only this time most > > of them are squares. > > > > > > Well arguably that regression in markup based UI was WPF. They made a > lot of mistakes that to this day murder performance and the markup is > pretty bulky. But they've gone backed and fixed a lot of the perf and > markup issues with WinRT, and I am seeing some better markups in > newer toolkits that look like they learned from WPF. But arguably > HTML/CSS was the first, and IMHO they made WAY to many mistakes there > and only now just starting to catch up to where WPF was in 2005. > Well, I wasn't really directing that at anything in particular, whether UI markups or otherwise. Just a general comment. Although many of the specific instances I have in mind *do* involve the web.
