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Show HN: Sciter.Lite – HTML/CSS Engine for Devices(terrainformatica.com)
2 points by c-smile 7y ago|0 comments
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by c-smile 7y ago
Or just implement React natively so speed will not be an issue: https://sciter.com/sciter-4-4-0-0-with-reactor-on-board/
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Yep, initial idea of HTML as just one dimensional tape of scrollable text - something that has given width but no height - literally just a Text for reading ... Who would have thought that we will start clicking <button>s by literally
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by c-smile 7y ago
There is an abbreviation for that - YMMV, right? My monitor is closer to that usually. And that's the point. It makes absolutely no sense to measure viewing angles. The only thing that we can agree is that area of finger/screen to
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by c-smile 7y ago
> When you are reading a text on your phone, you hold the screen at a certain distance from your eyeballs, but when you look at a computer screen—you tend to be further from it to read comfortably. The larger the distance between a retin
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by c-smile 7y ago
GDI. If FillRect(hdc,rect) is the only thing that you need from it then it will work for you, yes. But GDI does not support antialiasing so, let's say, Ellipse(hdc) will just draw an illustration to Brezenham algorithm but not that you
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by c-smile 7y ago
That happens all the time. With any OS. On Windows, if you have an application that draws stuff using GDI+ (20+ years technology) then you will discover that it is not moving today on high-DPI monitors. GDI+ is pure CPU rendering and the Mo
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by c-smile 7y ago
Yes. Sublime is unbeatable when it is used as a smart notepad - with frequent starts/closes. It loads instantly. VSCode is more like IDE (once opened, rarely closed) and is actually moving into Visual Studio direction in respect of its
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by c-smile 7y ago
What exactly is "not true"?
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> Do we need to rethink what free software is? Yes we do need to do that. Initial idea of FOSS was more about personal use of OS applications, so at times when "you can share your code with your neighbour without your neighbour be
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by c-smile 7y ago
The irony: that site does not work in Microsoft Edge browser...
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Any hope for getting native Graphics API on Android? Or is it too much to ask and so each native app shall reinvent the wheel by its own? 12 years and no such basic stuff ...
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I am personally doing all that with my own Sciter Notes [1]. That is a free form personal database of HTML documents if you wish. With notebooks, tags and events. For customers I have single template in form of definition list (html's
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Tag Clouds, are they useful at all?(en.wikipedia.org)
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"would be using Sciter for embedded apps" that is not a problem already. E.g. it runs on ARMs like Raspberry Pi. SDK contains binaries that use GTK but it is possible to run it without any window manager. Access to FB or video mem
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by c-smile 7y ago
Interesting. I am thinking of making Sciter Engine as a chrome for mobile devices. So mobile UI can be defined in terms of HTML/CSS with code-behind-UI written in C/C++ or script. Conceptually that would be close to FirefoxOS but
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by c-smile 7y ago
Consider the following task: you have UI widget and you will need to draw something on it. Something that cannot be trivially expressed by CSS means. What will you do in native application? You will put custom drawing code (C/C++/
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by c-smile 7y ago
> Latest iteration is to write the majority of the app in Go and … Check Sciter/Go : https://github.com/sciter-sdk/go-sciter It is used precisely that way: backend - Go, UI - Sciter.
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by c-smile 7y ago
Sciter/Rust ( https://github.com/sciter-sdk/rust-sciter ) was not tested: https://gitlab.com/z0mbie42/rust_gui_ecosystem_overview#not-... but conclusion "The most promising seems to be Flu
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by c-smile 7y ago
Thanks, but the text of the license also states "All Source Code provided with Software... must be protected" Yet particular license type is dependent on size of organization. A+B entity is clearly not the same as just entity B so
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I have a question in regards of this. If company A owns/purchased license for a product issued by company C. The license clearly states: "Licensee may not resell, rent, lease … the Source Code or any part of it … " And now co
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by c-smile 7y ago
Quite frequently to get URL of particular image on the page or to get an ID of element to make precise reference URL.
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Ask HN: Sciter, Open Source or Other Options
2 points by c-smile 7y ago|1 comments
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by c-smile 7y ago
Slightly off the topic. In one of web applications (CRM alike) I was experimenting with SQLite-per-user approach. In that application user related data was clustered on per-user basis. So instead of single-db-for-all-users I had one-db-per-
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by c-smile 7y ago
> can stand up well in harsh environments. As an anecdotal evidence... I was working with one team that was tasked to create device for work in harsh environment. Problem is that they cannot use even mechanical knobs there. Capacitive bu
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Someone needs to go to basics of ergonomics. That strange actually. I do remember ergonomics lectures in university were presented by lecturer wearing army uniform as these guys were deadly (literally) serious about it and consequences. At
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by c-smile 7y ago
And size of the group is also a fuzzy term. In some cases whole population of a country may behave as a single group. Let's say USSR at 1941 was clearly one single group focused on "do everything for the victory". As of the h
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by c-smile 7y ago
I'd think about all this from slightly different perspective. Humanity evolution is clearly follows the trajectory with well known "strong points" (in math sense) Slaveholding, Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, … P
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Ideally HTML/CSS/script application shall be just single monolithic signed executable. But that's achievable only with Sciter :)
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I believe that most frustrations we've got is in the fact that we are trying to handle two distinct tasks by single tool. 1. Web as a source of information. Super Wikipedia as you wish. Mostly for us - readers. 2. Web as a functionalit

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