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Maybe I’m using outdated terminology, but why is this called a “rendering engine?” When I think of rendering engines, I think of things that generate pixels.
by millstone 13y ago
Maybe I’m using outdated terminology, but why is this called a “rendering engine?” When I think of rendering engines, I think of things that generate pixels.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoRendering is just a form of translation that takes a high-level input and translates that into a frame of pixels. Any UI runtime therefore qualifies as a rendering engine...
- biot 13y agoNotepad.exe: a rendering engine for text files.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoAcrobat is a PDF renderer, ghost view is a postscript renderer, Chrome includes an HTML renderer. Notepad renders text, Word renders word documents. They are also editors, but that is not relevant to the definition.
- singlow 13y agoIn web development, render is often used to describe the process of turning a template and data into html either on the server or within the client. More generally it is used for any template+data=>result function.