> Create native applications that use the widely popular HTML/CSS paradigm for layout, but leave out much of the heavyweight stuff that a full JS/DOM/browser AP

> Create native applications that use the widely popular HTML/CSS paradigm for layout, but leave out much of the heavyweight stuff that a full JS/DOM/browser API implies. This looks like it can enable very large improvements over packaging browser engines like electron etc That's pretty much the pitch! > Some of the stories they told, like having to prerender and dynamically measure web pages in order to achieve some very simple layout relationships hit right at home. > Writing CSS feels, as Muratori said, more like presenting a case in the court of law, instead of building upon simple primitives > Perhaps the authors can find inspiration by looking at CSS houdini, which tries to make CSS extensible Pluggable layout algorithms are definitely something I'd like to enable in Blitz. I suspect JS for layout will be too slow in most cases. But this is an area in which we have an advantage with our API being in Rust. And our layout engine Taffy (https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy) is already highly modular. Custom widgets would go beyond just layout and allow for fully custom layout, paint, accessibility, event handling, etc similar to a widget in a traditional GUI toolkit like GTK or Cocoa. I also have a proposal to add a new unit to CSS itself (inspired by how many non-web UI systems do layout), which has the potential to greatly simplify web layout in the common cases https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8267 https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8267. It's been on the back burner for a bit, but I should really get back to it at some point (I really want to actually implement the algorithms).