>Yeah there are no good UI editors and that's mainly because that's been rejected as a feature by developers - mainly because nobody was able to actually build a decent HTML >editor because HTML is not like classic desktop apps with a pixel based canvas. Building rich designers for flow layouts that work with many things is very difficult - not just for >HTML but also for things like WPF and Flash before it. The main reason it worked for desktop apps is because there was fixed size positional layout. But that paradigm no longer >works, if you want to build applications that can run on multiple devices. I suppose it should be possible
>to build decent WYSIWYG editors, but this has become a derided feature so I doubt anybody will build one.

Qt has always had a WYSIWYG that uses dynamic ways of building UI's. It works for web (talking about widgets), mobile, desktop, and almost any device you can think of - like a car dash.

>Does that matter? Not sure. I used to think I can't build anything without visual layout, but today I build UIs with CSS frameworks and am perfectly fine using markup text and live >previewing the content in the browser and I find that more efficient (especially if you use keyboard templates in WebStorm or Visual Studio).

This I completely agree with! I too did not believe I would be creating and developing UI's by hand coding. But it not to bad and has advantages.


>I agree that there's a lot of room for improvement in Web development, but if HTML/CSS/JS was going to be replaced it would have happened already.

And what about 'dart'? I see a growing user base. And of course JS is changing in dramatic ways. And then there are all the wordpress sites that provide the templates that convert to JS.

Much of what you say is good advise - but it does sounds like a man that's built a hammer and the world now looks like a nail. You made the change to the web so many years ago - I bet that it must seem very strange to you that all have not followed your journey. I'm not really sure where the web is heading with all the security issues, constant changes in tech but the customers are not happpy with the changes.
Johnf