Re: Because victory wasn't achievable to begin with

Marc Clifton wrote:

>>... What does that mean? Why would I want MFC in a cross-platform GUI?
> 
> 
> Why would you WANT a cross-platform GUI?  My experiences are probably
> different, but the cross-platform applications that I've seen, that try to
> unify *anything* except low level code, fail miserable.

I've used some really amazing cross-platform applications: Amazon.com, 
eBay, HoTMaiL, BugZilla, Orkut. The only problem is that these 
applications are limited in the widgets available to them because they 
use a web page development language rather than an application 
development language. Thus, they lack things like proper windows, tree 
widgets, menu bars, rich text areas and so forth. This is what I would 
like XUL to solve.

I frankly can't understand what would be the virtue in XUL _at all_ if 
it were not cross-platform. If I wanted to write Windows GUIs there are 
literally dozens of excellent ways to do that. If you consider XUL a 
competitor to those languages then I can see why you might think it is 
poor. But I don't think that's the point.

> ...  The GUI's are
> non-standard, you can't use the usual tools during development, and the
> overall quality of the application suffers.  Sad as it is, if I want to
> develop a cross platform application, I'll develop separate apps for each
> platform so that users get a familiar-for-their-platform look & feel and the
> performance of the app is tailored to the platform.

Great: so you choose the appropriate set of platforms for your users. If 
your choices and theirs are out of sync, you both lose.

  Paul Prescod




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