alt Hacker News> Reminds me of VST GUIs
I was thinking the same thing. And I was also thinking, now that Ableton Live has a JavaScript toolkit [1], maybe this Ambient CSS could be useful in that context.
I’m still on Ableton Live 11 so the Ableton Live Extensions SDK is not available for me. Therefore I cannot try this idea myself yet.
[1]: https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/introducing-extensions-sdk/
From what I remember reading it was pretty limited and only applied to context menu actions.
I was pretty disappointed when I saw that, but they’ll probably expand it