What I still say---I discussed this yesterday with Kevin on IRC---is that
a 1:1 declarative UI definition works as long as you don't mix in CSS. But
at this very moment 1:1 fails because one might be needed to create certain
effects to modify the Widget-DOM, e.g., nest a control in an artificial
composite to show a shadow border.
I cannot see any problem of 1:1 declarative UI with CSS. If you change the
Style, you can simply recreate the entire tree or view.
With an abstraction layer, you should have the same problem. In SWT, some
parameters must be provided during the creation. If you want to change it,
you have no way to do it on "live" (keep the same SWT Widget). The only
solution is "delete it and recreate it". It is what we do in eFace and XWT.
I cannot see any problem with this solution.
