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Working with Atom has opened my eyes to the idea that the web technologies are the ultimate UI platform. HTML+CSS can build any user interface and allow extreme

Working with Atom has opened my eyes to the idea that the web technologies are the ultimate UI platform. HTML+CSS can build any user interface and allow extreme customization. Atom is slow and chromium a resource hog, but these are limitations of the current implementations, not inherent to the technologies themselves. A Servo-based UI toolkit with well thought out DOM bindings could solve both of these problems spectacularly. But I'm glad this exists and I'm excited to see a light cross platform UI library that works across multiple OSes and languages. I'll probably use this for my future native UI needs.

c-smile 10y ago
"Atom is slow and chromium a resource hog..." Check Sciter (http://sciter.com http://sciter.com) then. It is single dll/so/dylib of 4-8mb without any external dependencies.
- infogulch 10y ago
  Licensing & Prices > Indie+ (Windows, OS X, Linux versions) > $1260 + yearly upgrade fee > We have no intention to cover full CSS1/CSS2 attibute map. Yeah that's not gonna work out for many projects.
  - c-smile 10y ago
    1. there is a free version. 2. "We have no intention to cover full CSS1/CSS2 attibute map." is a very old statement. CSS 2.1 is implemented in full.
    - infogulch 10y ago
      Thanks for refuting my first impressions. I may have to take a closer look even though it's closed-source. "is a very old statement". I found this from the home page: Developers > Resources For ... > Web Programmers > CSS Property Map [0]. :) Some questions. How does the render performance compare to modern browsers? TIScript: why? [0]: http://sciter.com/docs/content/css/cssmap.html http://sciter.com/docs/content/css/cssmap.html
      - c-smile 10y ago
        1. Render performance. On Windows Sciter uses Direct2D that is native H/W accelerated graphics rendering layer. Yet it allows to render UI directly into DirectX surface : http://sciter.com/sciter-and-directx/ http://sciter.com/sciter-and-directx/ 2. Why TIScript ? Check "10 years road to Sciter" article: https://sciter.com/2014/07/ https://sciter.com/2014/07/

c-smile 10y ago

"Atom is slow and chromium a resource hog..." Check Sciter (http://sciter.com http://sciter.com) then. It is single dll/so/dylib of 4-8mb without any external dependencies.

infogulch 10y ago
Licensing & Prices > Indie+ (Windows, OS X, Linux versions) > $1260 + yearly upgrade fee > We have no intention to cover full CSS1/CSS2 attibute map. Yeah that's not gonna work out for many projects.
- c-smile 10y ago
  1. there is a free version. 2. "We have no intention to cover full CSS1/CSS2 attibute map." is a very old statement. CSS 2.1 is implemented in full.
  - infogulch 10y ago
    Thanks for refuting my first impressions. I may have to take a closer look even though it's closed-source. "is a very old statement". I found this from the home page: Developers > Resources For ... > Web Programmers > CSS Property Map [0]. :) Some questions. How does the render performance compare to modern browsers? TIScript: why? [0]: http://sciter.com/docs/content/css/cssmap.html http://sciter.com/docs/content/css/cssmap.html
    - c-smile 10y ago
      1. Render performance. On Windows Sciter uses Direct2D that is native H/W accelerated graphics rendering layer. Yet it allows to render UI directly into DirectX surface : http://sciter.com/sciter-and-directx/ http://sciter.com/sciter-and-directx/ 2. Why TIScript ? Check "10 years road to Sciter" article: https://sciter.com/2014/07/ https://sciter.com/2014/07/