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Hi, author here! We are building the frontend of our _application_ in Rust and rendering it to a canvas using egui.rs. For the web site we are using more "trad

Hi, author here! We are building the frontend of our _application_ in Rust and rendering it to a canvas using egui.rs. For the web site we are using more "traditional" tech, as you've noticed. I am not a big fan of the complexity of modern web sites (including our own), which is exactly why I created egui. However, it is targeted at web apps, not web sites.

chanks 4y ago
I'm very curious how well this is working for you in practice, since I've been thinking about what it would look like to share a single Rust UI implementation across a webapp and native apps.
- emilern 4y ago
  So far so good! Putting the UI in a canvas elements have some distinct drawbacks (https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/master/crates/eframe#problems-with-running-egui-on-the-web https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/master/crates/eframe#prob...) but for us it is definitely worth it. Having one unified codebase for our web app and native app, and having it all in Rust, is just amazing. We're currently working on a 3D renderer based on wgpu (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu) that we will likewise use for both web and desktop.
panzi 4y ago
How does egui interact with screen readers and other accessibility APIs?
- emilern 4y ago
  So-so. There is an experimental screen reader you can enable in the "Backend" panel of egui.rs. There is ongoing work to integrate AccessKit (https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit) which will improve things significantly.
  - mwcampbell 4y ago
    Anyone who's interested in the AccessKit integration can play with my work-in-progress branch: https://github.com/mwcampbell/egui/tree/accesskit https://github.com/mwcampbell/egui/tree/accesskit It's currently Windows-only, and I'm working on the big missing feature, which is text editing support.
bern4444 4y ago
Doesn’t dart/flutter do this? Render everything to a canvas. It is difficult to believe this will be the future of the web. I don’t think websites should take this approach. Seems like a bad idea

chanks 4y ago

I'm very curious how well this is working for you in practice, since I've been thinking about what it would look like to share a single Rust UI implementation across a webapp and native apps.

emilern 4y ago
So far so good! Putting the UI in a canvas elements have some distinct drawbacks (https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/master/crates/eframe#problems-with-running-egui-on-the-web https://github.com/emilk/egui/tree/master/crates/eframe#prob...) but for us it is definitely worth it. Having one unified codebase for our web app and native app, and having it all in Rust, is just amazing. We're currently working on a 3D renderer based on wgpu (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu) that we will likewise use for both web and desktop.

panzi 4y ago

How does egui interact with screen readers and other accessibility APIs?

emilern 4y ago
So-so. There is an experimental screen reader you can enable in the "Backend" panel of egui.rs. There is ongoing work to integrate AccessKit (https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit) which will improve things significantly.
- mwcampbell 4y ago
  Anyone who's interested in the AccessKit integration can play with my work-in-progress branch: https://github.com/mwcampbell/egui/tree/accesskit https://github.com/mwcampbell/egui/tree/accesskit It's currently Windows-only, and I'm working on the big missing feature, which is text editing support.

bern4444 4y ago

Doesn’t dart/flutter do this? Render everything to a canvas. It is difficult to believe this will be the future of the web. I don’t think websites should take this approach. Seems like a bad idea