You couldn't be more right. We're still working with such low level tools it's embarrassing. The worst part is, I think this is because of a sort of job security mentality. We had real working RAD tools in the 90's (NeXT/Apple enterprise object frameworks). Systems with databases built into the OS in the 80's (AS/400), and so on. But we've abandoned all of those.
>I think would be obvious to more programmers if it weren't for the HTML+CSS tradition that has been built up and become ensconced.
HTML/CSS and in fact the entire web stack is a horrible monster. It's essentially programming in assembly to put dialogs up on a screen. The only real saving grace is reach.
Here's an experiment, put up a modal dialog up in your GUI. One line. Now do the same in a webpage.
>I think would be obvious to more programmers if it weren't for the HTML+CSS tradition that has been built up and become ensconced.
HTML/CSS and in fact the entire web stack is a horrible monster. It's essentially programming in assembly to put dialogs up on a screen. The only real saving grace is reach.
Here's an experiment, put up a modal dialog up in your GUI. One line. Now do the same in a webpage.