Well, Tk distances you from doing raw Xlib (or whatever is used on non-Unix platforms), but then, so does HTML. Even with Tk, you have to have things like:

    $widget -> Label (-text => "Flubber") -> pack;
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somewhere in your code. I fail to see why that's a better abstraction than a

    print HTML "<p>Flubber</p>";
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In fact, I find it easier to separate content from presentation using HTML than using Tk. Stylesheets are cross-platform, but the X options database certainly isn't.

Abigail