Isn't the point about the differences across browsers pretty much moot given that the entire community will effectlvely only be using one browser anyway, i.e whichever one we build into FSO?
Or am I missing something about why this is important?
I think the point was to differentiate between the content and the UI. The UI for a browser is stuff like the forward and back buttons, address bar, tab bar, etc. The webpage, no matter how interactive it is, is separate from the UI.
You're right, though, browser UIs are a moot point. All that's really needed is the layout engine, and Chromium seems to have been decided upon already.
I would HOPE a full browser with it's own UI isn't used to draw the FSO UI (Yo dawg, I herd you like UIs, so we put a UI inside you UI)
The native controls on the different platforms will look different but given that most of that will be styled using CSS it shouldn't be a problem.
Im confused as to what you are saying, it makes it sound like you are planning on having things like forward and back buttons and reskinning them to the FSO theme. Aside from that native controls tend to vary by browser, but the browser look across platforms tends to vary little.
The point is people are arguing the semantics that HTML isn't for UIs, it's a markup language, but this isn't important because we're talking about the entire web language stack and not just pure HTML.
I am pretty sure I mentioned I was talking about the entire web language stack, or more importantly, a full web layout engine.
Yes, i'm aware, mine isnt much better but you have made more than 4 posts worth of useless, unsubstantiated claims so far.
Tell you what, when someone actually says, "we have researched other options and determined chromium works the best", I'll shut up.
My main concern is that whatever gets used will get used simply because people have heard of it, not because it's the easiest to implement and easiest for modders and end users to use.
[edit] also, read one of your previous posts, you mention using SVG + JS. Now that, my friend, is truly spoken like somebody who has never worked with any of it. Please stop "brainstorming" and "throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks". [/edit]
No? SVG can be fully scripted, and even supports styling. I didn't say it wasn't terrible, I just said you could.
PS, first one to pull jQuery into FSO gets an international slap from me
Does someone mentioning jQueryUI earlier count?
It's more important to be right than useful on the internet.
Always.
Pretty sure in a modding community it's also important to be stubborn.