Building cross-platform user interfaces in 2017

John Slegers
4 min readApr 20, 2017

About a decade ago or so, it was fashionable to model a GUI in a cross-platform flavor of XML (like XUL) and then have a platform-specific rendering engine process that XML-file to display a layout. It is no longer fashionable to do this, however. Today, in 2017, the trend is to build your apps on platforms that allow you to write everything in HTML, CSS and/or JavaScript, no matter what environment your…

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John Slegers

PERSONALITY: - - - - - - rebel, geek, philosopher - - - - - - INTERESTS: programming, UX , design, human sciences, board gaming, movies, retro-futurism