Re: HTML-Info design

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Tom <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se> writes:
>>
>> It does not work in Chrome, see attachment.  This is one of the eternal
>> problems with JS/HTML.
>>
>
> It is not a problem with JS, it's a problem of browser platforms.
> That's why we have JS libraries.
>
> Like when you want to write a cross platform GUI which works under
> X, Windows, etc. then you don't start hand coding GUI widgets,
> you use libraries like GTK or wxWidgets instead.
>
> So the platform differences should be handled by the library, not
> the app, and if there is a problem on a platform then it is a bug
> in the library which should be fixed there.


Sure, but I do not think we need those JS libraries for something like
this now. Just target HTML5.