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I believe Harfbuzz is used almost universally by every major application from Chrome to Firefox.
by kaba0 3y ago
I believe Harfbuzz is used almost universally by every major application from Chrome to Firefox.
- flohofwoe 3y agoHarfbuzz only provides 'text shaping' (very important for UNICODE support, especially for languages like Arabic), but the actual text rendering needs to be done elsewhere.
- okanat 3y agoTheir rendering engines choose the OS native one. They have abstractions over that. For example they'll use DirectWrite on Windows. Implementing a partial GUI toolkit is just another thing in the list of extremely hard problems in browser engine development.