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AppKit and SwiftUI and WinUI are all meh for rendering lots of text. Chromium is quite good at it. Plus they have lots of embedded web content these days and m
by fassssst 3mo ago
AppKit and SwiftUI and WinUI are all meh for rendering lots of text. Chromium is quite good at it.
Plus they have lots of embedded web content these days and managing webviews is a relative pain vs it all being one webview
- stogot 3mo agoWhy is a browser tool better at rendering text than native?
- fassssst 3mo agoBecause web sites have always been about rendering huge scrollable amounts of text and images
- unleashhale 3mo ago[dead]
- jazzyjackson 3mo agoBecause there is more competition to render sites in a pleasing way, switching cost is lower. The operating systems have a high switching cost, very few people will learn a new OS because the text is a little fuzzy.
- never_inline 3mo agoIt's fairly simple sans-serif text with some markdown formatting, eh?
- fassssst 3mo agoYea but rendering a book’s worth of that, with text selection and embedded web content, is not trivial with the native UI frameworks like it is with web UI.