It is only natural that in a web environment, application design will take the form of a text editor. Originating from content authoring, web development environments require the flexibility of a text editor. The web development editor usually provides a mechanism for adding controls while most of the layout is done via code.
Desktop environments, on the other hand, have always kept it simple. Their dedicated nature enabled them to provide very productive designers, allowing developers to really design their application with no need for hand coding whatsoever. Using concepts like anchoring and docking, they can layout controls exactly how they want it.
Programming a complex dialog, using desktop designers, is as easy as using a Power Point application. This provides desktop developers with the ability to rapidly develop, and if need be, change their dialogs. Changing the layout, in web environments, usually requires a great deal of headaches to the web developers which are required to recode large tables to implement the new layout.
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