[mythtv] crazy idea for changing the UI

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Wednesday 21 April 2004 15:43, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Simon Kenyon wrote:
> >i suspect it might be quite a bit of work to implement. is there a good
> > reason why it makes no sense?
>
> You just named one.

Yes, probably not the best use of time and resources for most developers.

> Another one is probably that HTML doesn't give such nice/powerful ways
> to create UIs, esp. when it comes to details and treeviews - I guess
> there's a reason why the Mozilla project created XUL instead of using
> HTML.

You'd probably end up having to make heavy use of Java and/or JavaScript, or 
something like that, and still not have all the flexibility/capabilities of 
Qt.

> Also, you would lose themability.

No you wouldn't. That's what CSS is for. ;-)

http://www.csszengarden.com/

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