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If you haven't encountered this browser before, I find it fascinating. It's meant for devices that aren't necessarily computers. For example, someone making a
by dgreensp 5y ago
If you haven't encountered this browser before, I find it fascinating. It's meant for devices that aren't necessarily computers. For example, someone making a digital "sign" can use HTML and CSS, or dynamic HTML motion graphics, to create their content, and run it in Flow. It doesn't have to be able to run, say, Google Docs. However, the developer wrote a blog post about getting Google Docs to run, by fixing the necessary bugs and adding the necessary features: https://www.ekioh.com/devblog/google-docs-in-a-clean-room-browser/ https://www.ekioh.com/devblog/google-docs-in-a-clean-room-br... For example, Google Docs keeps the focus in a hidden iframe, apparently, and Flow wasn't firing the right series of events when the focus traveled between frames.
The way I look at it, for a custom "browser engine" whose goal is to let you use an independent implementation of the DOM to create graphics and UIs that render on the GPU of an embedded device, it's delightfully over-engineered.
- unilynx 5y agoGoogle docs input handling is terrible. It still doesn’t properly handle long presses to select accented characters on Mac, but at least you get to see where the hidden input field is located.
- deathanatos 5y agoSimilarly on mac, the symbol/emoji/character picker doesn't work. (The keyboard command is acknowledged by the menu bar flashing, but nothing happens.) But that's also broken in Slack, too. (& Linux's IME is broken in Discord, and…)
- danielvaughn 5y agoProbably a result of them rendering it from scratch in WebGL.
- TheOtherZech 5y agoIt'll be interesting to see how wide of a niche Flow ends up fitting into. Digital signage and in-store displays are the obvious shoe-ins, but the fact that they're also working on compatibility for things like Google Docs makes me wonder if they'll try to market it as a UI solution for low cost/low power devices as well.
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