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by c-smile 3y ago
Well, it is definitely not a suicide mission. At least in my Sciter I've implemented all those by myself in reasonable time frame - first version was made in 9 months. But "yes", you need some prior experience, in order to co
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by c-smile 3y ago
IME handling must be implemented at OS level. IME is not Skia's responsibility.
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by c-smile 3y ago
These bullet points are exactly what I did in Sciter ( https://sciter.com ) - Windowing -- Tabs -- Menus -- Painting -- Animation -- Text -The compositor -Handling input -- Pointer input -- Keyboard input - Accessibility - Interna
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by c-smile 3y ago
In Sciter I did just that - JSX is an integral part of JS compiler - patched version of QuickJS : https://gitlab.com/c-smile/quickjspp/-/blob/master/quickjs-j... So in Sciter this works out of the b
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by c-smile 4y ago
Encyclopedia Britannica: > word processor, computer program used to write and revise documents, compose the layout of the text , and preview on a computer monitor how the printed copy will appear . The last capability is known as “what
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by c-smile 4y ago
It is not a word processor in common sense. Difference between Word Processor and text editor is in WYSIWYG mode of operation. At least for most of people. Like my Sciter.Notes ( https://notes.sciter.com ) has better chances to be
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by c-smile 4y ago
I did UI part of it. Up until last year my Sciter ( https://sciter.com ) worked on WinCE. Dropped support after my last customer that was using WinCE decided to drop support of that OS. WinCE had pretty solid and stable core run
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by c-smile 4y ago
I think that porting WinCE in the same manner would be more promising. That OS had was really a solid foundation, I have no idea why MS abandoned the project. To make modern UI layer on top of it and it may fly.
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by c-smile 4y ago
I think it makes sense to combine this with premake ( https://premake.github.io/ ) Premake is also Lua based and while it does slightly different thing (generates VS,Xcode,gmake solutions) it may benefit from having direct bu
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Sciter.Notes, by Human for Human(terrainformatica.com)
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by c-smile 4y ago
[A bit out of scope] I suspect that in pretty short time people will stop reading any texts from the Web. And indeed, human got a good skill to skip ad blocks on pages. Next will be any texts on web pages: why to bother reading stuff that A
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by c-smile 4y ago
That's generally impossible as native UI widgets are windows. Consider this: <div style="overflow:hidden"> <input type="text" /> </div> In order to clip out that input in
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by c-smile 4y ago
> we have a number of other libs to integrate, some of which add their own rendering (which requires access to e.g. a Vulkan context, not merely HTML/CSS or other high-level UI elements)… I have a customer that is doing something cl
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by c-smile 4y ago
Are MS Office or LibreOffice native? They use DOM (not W3C DOM but their own) and good portion of scripting to glue components together. Is my Sciter.Notes application ( https://notes.sciter.com ) native? It uses native implementa
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by c-smile 4y ago
> but a natively compiled app that is directly linked to the rendering GUI lib. That's Sciter. It is a standalone embeddable library that does not use browser engine. It has its own HTML/CSS rendering engine that draws stuff u
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by c-smile 4y ago
Check my Sciter ( https://sciter.com ) It is embeddable HTML/CSS/JS/ UI layer by design. If you want to check how it feels in real life application then check https://notes.sciter.com/ . That&#x27
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by c-smile 4y ago
> With XUL, something like width: 100px wouldn’t quite do what it says. Same statement can be applied to display: flexbox. It also breaks CSS box model in that sense. For example flex properties with obvious names like flex-basis, align-
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by c-smile 4y ago
How long it takes for human child to start walking? "it is too early, oops, no, it is too late".
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by c-smile 4y ago
The book should start from explaining what Redis is. It is a DB in the first place so "Learn network programming [by writing Redis]" is kind of questionable.
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by c-smile 4y ago
> What are the implications for society when general thinking, reading, and writing becomes like Chess? Consider the society where 90% of population does not need to produce anything. AIs will do that. What would be the name of economica
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by c-smile 4y ago
"Beautiful" is quite subjective... Especially in regard of terminal UI... Or rather beautiful in what sense? Source code, architecture, or what?
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by c-smile 4y ago
So they switched economy to manual driving mode. Brakes did not work anymore? Or rather brakes were so hard that front passengers were thrown away...
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by c-smile 4y ago
Hmmm... attempt to define signals using ReactJS' useState()/useMemo() vocabulary appears as really bad idea. PReact's signal() as a concept is better - more pure. https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/signa
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by c-smile 4y ago
There is a special internal position:popup mode that cannot be set in CSS. Only internally. position:popup is accompanied with the pair of anchor-position:1..9 and popup-position:1..9 props. For the meaning of these numbers see NUMPAD keys
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by c-smile 4y ago
Not so easy, at least: <span style="display:inline-block">centered element</span> But in general <center> still cannot be 100% expressed by CSS means.
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by c-smile 4y ago
If we would have flex units instead of display:flexbox then this: div { width:max-content; margin:*; } is enough to place block in the middle of its container (vertically and horizontally), see: https://t
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by c-smile 4y ago
Just CSS is not enough for tooltips... Here is what we've got in 10+ tooltip providing experience in Sciter[1] ... Declarative tooltips support: <div title="some text" /> <div titleid="dom-elemen
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by c-smile 4y ago
> bucketing ... "All of that is very different between the various engines, making the whole process even less predictable." Source: https://benfrain.com/css-performance-revisited-selectors-blo... In worst case
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by c-smile 4y ago
Well, that's the matter of live systems design. When you want to add a feature you should ask first if that can be accomplished by existing mechanisms. And the second, if to go with with the change that affect millions of users, can we
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by c-smile 4y ago
Nested rules is just a syntax sugar. In Sciter, 10 years ago, I came up with style sets: @set Main { :root { ... } // root element that has this set applied .bar { ... } article { ... } :root >

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