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HTML isn't designed for good looking. The default stylesheet for HTML is impossibly ugly. Heck look at HN, hardly a thing of beauty.

However, most people do a lot of work to make web sites and apps attractive. You can do that work with Swing or JavaFX too. I've done it before, it was fine, I ended up with a modern web-ish feel to the UI.



By now, html is totally designed to be good looking. Look at all the amount of work, that went into CSS and co.

Things that cost me a line in CSS, like text-shadow, probably would require me to implement a shader libary in swing.


In Swing, yeah. Swing focuses very much on boring business-type UI.

Not in JavaFX where such shaders are pre-canned and there's a CSS dialect too. I wrote my web-like app in JavaFX. It was no big deal.




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