Skia is just a 2D drawing API, like Cairo. It's what Chrome uses under the hood to render their whole UI I think, including (non-WebGL) HTML5 canvas stuff. Why

Skia is just a 2D drawing API, like Cairo. It's what Chrome uses under the hood to render their whole UI I think, including (non-WebGL) HTML5 canvas stuff. Why you would want to use this over HTML5 canvas? Good question. Maybe you want some features in Skia that aren't in the canvas API? Maybe you have a Skia app that you want to port to the web?