I agree, at least for the appearance. Each time I have a reason to use Swing or SWT, I end up wishing that either of them would just render HTML. For one thing, there are decent WYSIWYG editors out there, which I've yet to find for Swing.
In general, a markup language is easier to use than widgets. If I code a page manually I can do 90% or more of it without looking anything up, but with Swing I frequently have to consult a reference to figure out which widget to use and all of the methods and properties needed to get it to behave the way I want.
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I agree, at least for the appearance. Each time I have a reason to use Swing or SWT, I end up wishing that either of them would just render HTML. For one thing, there are decent WYSIWYG editors out there, which I've yet to find for Swing.
In general, a markup language is easier to use than widgets. If I code a page manually I can do 90% or more of it without looking anything up, but with Swing I frequently have to consult a reference to figure out which widget to use and all of the methods and properties needed to get it to behave the way I want.