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Because the web has nothing to facilitate that. Almost literally nothing: from rich components to data handling to control over rendering if needed.

So the VB/Winform model of building GUI on the web has to re-invent all controls from scratch, then all dat abinfding from scratch, then...



Sounds like an idea for a startup!


Perhaps one of the local or browser-based IDE companies could take this on too.




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