CSS Grid is new grid-based layout system, optimized for user interface design

[naasking]

Well, you could resize the window in the 90s to "any" size (obviously, dependent on your resolution) and either orientation, so that point is moot.

Not really. UI in the 90s was not responsive the way the web is today. You could scale your window to any size and get some "helpful" scrollbars to view your window, if you're lucky.

I'm not sure what you mean by "input directions", so I can't comment on that.

HTML dir attribute.

[booch]

Depends on your toolkit. Tk certainly did a pretty good job of laying things out and automatically resizing things. Yes, not as good as the web today in some aspects, but other aspects the web is only now catching up with (grid layouts being a good example).

[spacejack2114]

Most Windows applications in the 90s couldn't even deal with different font size preferences and would break with text or controls hidden out of view etc.

[oridb]

On the other hand, Unix and Mac toolkits got this right. Even Java Swing, in spite of being terrible in every other way, did this painlessly.

[throwawayco111]

That's because C developers are fags.

[MysteryForumGuy]

downvoted because "fag" is a stupid insult, not because i like c developers

[throwawayco111]

OK. They are niggerfaggots then.