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by c-smile 6y ago
Well, some rendering acceleration was with us from the very beginning in form of DMA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_memory_access ) - transfer of blocks from RAM to VRAM. But that pretty much what we have now eve
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by c-smile 6y ago
I understand. Problem is that any practical 2D rendering solution shall support as GPU as CPU rendering unfortunately. It would be interesting to see any GPU equivalent of something like AGG by Max Shemanarev, RIP.
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by c-smile 6y ago
CoreGraphics is pure CPU rasterizer, similar to GDI+. Sciter ( https://sciter.com ) on MacOS uses Skia/OpenGL by default with fallback to CoreGraphics. It is possible to configure Sciter to use CoreGraphics on MacOS to compar
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by c-smile 6y ago
Question to the author: is this only implementation of GPU rasterizer? What about anything like WARP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Advanced_Rasterization... ) - fallback rendering when GPU is not available ?
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by c-smile 6y ago
> Only one of those that would cover all possible layouts. In fact 10 years ago it was such an idea at w3c-styles: https://terrainformatica.com/2018/12/11/10-years-of-flexboxi... Single CSS property `flow`
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by c-smile 6y ago
> simple language What is conceptually wrong (or complex) with current HTML/CSS ? What would you change?
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by c-smile 6y ago
Check this: https://sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ide.png that one has menu, check menu.htm in that sample: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/tree/master/s
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by c-smile 6y ago
> What's your definition of "native" though? Let's take some typical native GUI calculator application. The code a) creates window by calling CreateDialog(...,template,...). That template sits in .RC file - that is UI
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by c-smile 6y ago
> QuickJS benchmarks Typically we do not do such task in scripts. And indeed who would need ray tracing in script if you have native libraries for that? 100% that number crunching tasks will be slower in order of magnitude than native on
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by c-smile 6y ago
Well, applications that use Sciter UI are native ones: https://sciter.com/#customers And applications that use Electron are not. Just because the only reasonable option (for many reasons) to write code there is script. And
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by c-smile 6y ago
> V8 doesn't just blow Sciter out And it really does not - in most of typical UI tasks Sciter is faster. Reason is in different goals. Sciter is an embeddable engine. Script there is a glue: take output of one native function, trans
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by c-smile 6y ago
I know how to tackle such problems. My comment is rather about "multi-core UI". Many UI tasks have almost real-time requirements (animations, synchronized rendering, video) so they behave as "make -j 4" meaning that the
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by c-smile 6y ago
> However, as a web developer, ... modal window has a JS select element in it? Try Sciter then, it was designed precisely for running desktop UI using HTML/CSS as UI declaration languages. I was native UI developer initially, then W
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by c-smile 6y ago
That's probably true for calculator. But if you need some aside application for communication (e.g. Slack, Skype, whatever) accompanying your main workflow then it is better if that will consume as less resources as possible. But even
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by c-smile 6y ago
For that matter Sciter is pretty happy to run (render HTML/CSS and executing scripts) on rPI https://sciter.com/raspberry-pi-4/ So that's about architecture of the Chromium - multiple processes (not even thr
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by c-smile 6y ago
It depends... On Raspberry Pi for example (ARM device) parallel compilation (make ... -j 4) makes its UI completely non-responsive. The only reasonable option for UI rendering these days (high-DPI monitors) is to delegate rasterization to G
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by c-smile 6y ago
Yes, it uses its own script yet supports HTML5 and CSS2.1 + some CSS3 modules. But if you just need to create some relatively small utility, let's say, calculator.exe then it is pretty adequate for the task. If you want to run somethin
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by c-smile 6y ago
> multicore architecture This works if browser is the only application that runs on machine. So this is limiting possible use cases (like Electron) quite a lot. > low memory consumption Sciter's Quark ( https://quark.sc
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Quark as an alternative to Electron(quark.sciter.com)
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by c-smile 6y ago
Hmmm... dropping books on kids... It's good that cows are not flying... Wait, Russians did that already https://youtu.be/QvRiXIfRsCw?t=28
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by c-smile 6y ago
It is just modern tr-r-r-rend in public statements. Imagine Mr. Trump writing such a statement. What words/style would you see there?
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by c-smile 6y ago
Smart move... How would you otherwise convince existing customers to throw away working systems and buy new ones? I don't think that we should expect new ARM64 to be 10 times better than x64... The only idea I can think of is if chip w
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by c-smile 6y ago
> can be used to instrument only selected module(s) in the process Sigh, what does it mean "to instrument" in this context?
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by c-smile 6y ago
Just to stop treating any community as something special. That event have nothing about particular community. And I do not understand who and why decided to assign color label to that crime act.
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by c-smile 6y ago
USSR's Strategic Rocket Forces Control Rooms were also quite spectacular. It's a pity I do not have photos of them (for obvious reasons). This https://habr.com/ru/post/446098/ is close but not quite
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by c-smile 6y ago
> GUIs are a discoverability nightmare. Which GUI?
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by c-smile 6y ago
12 years ago at W3C styles I've proposed to solve it as simple as this: .in-the-middle { width:max-content; height:auto; margin:*; // "coils" on all sides moving it //
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by c-smile 6y ago
AFAIR the name of the project sounds like "non-Jew" in Hebrew and Yiddish, in derogatory connotation. Is it just by accident?
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by c-smile 6y ago
No, AV scanning has nothing with UI layer other than posting events "something found - here are details". Even more, usually scans are done in separate processes/daemons.
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by c-smile 6y ago
Sciter does not use webview or any other existing browser engine implementation. I did HTML/CSS and script engines by myself. The only place where I intersected with WebKit and Gecko teams is at WHATWG and then HTML WG at W3C in design

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