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c-smile on Aug 10, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML U...

Why such a surprise?

20 years ago Windows had .dlg resources that define layout and content of dialog windows. .dlg is just a binary representation of serialized window DOM.

16 years ago Visual Basic had .frm files that are close to what now known as QML.

Et cetera.

So there is nothing new with markup defining UI structure. What is new and quite valuable is CSS with its declarativeness and cascading.

pjmlp on Aug 11, 2018 [–]

And all of those were/are easier to work with than picking a div and turn it into a component.

One gets to write a bit of CSS soup and then ensuring it works as expected across all target browsers.

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