I gather it’s the time of year again when people claim their GUI platform’s layout manager was better a decade ago than HTML/CSS is today … you know, fairy tale time

Dec 19, 2018 · 6:02 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
OWL! Haven't thought of that in decades. Then MFC and it was all downhill from there... You don't think the various Smalltalk frameworks actually did pass this test, though (parity with Web now)? #genuineQuestion
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I fondly remember Borland’s OWL, and ILog Views, and a bunch of others. Many of them were nice to use! And did about 2.5% of what we expect of browsers today.
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