Domestica VS Sciter

Thinking about homechart.app but its not open source. Source: about 1 year ago

I think this is similar to https://homechart.app/. Source: over 1 year ago

As someone who built a SaaS for your 2nd use case (Homechart: https://homechart.app, lifetime license available!), the real reason is any kind of software that integrates with other things has an ongoing maintenance cost that needs to be paid by all of the users to keep it working. Like connecting to your bank accounts, that's not a one and done thing typically. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Unrelated: I recently discovered homechart.app (self-hosted event calendar manager) from this sub. Sincerely hope that they open-up a webhook-based notification alongside their Email one. That would be my favourite use-case for Gotify/NTFY. Source: over 1 year ago

Checkout Homechart, it's pretty simple and will do recurring meals within the next release or two: https://homechart.app The next version is waiting on Google to approve for the play store and then it will be released. It adds multi household support and a free personal tier. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

> wondering if css and svg could be used as abstraction over graphics and UI libraries There's another project called Sciter that uses CSS to target native graphics libraries: https://sciter.com > I wonder how hard it was to implement css. I've heard it can be pretty complex. It was hard, but the biggest barrier is the obscurity of the knowledge. Text layout is the hardest, because working with glyphs and... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

[2] https://sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/select-variants.png. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Otherwise, if we have only retained mode as in browsers, we will need to modify the DOM heavily and create temporary elements for handles. [1] https://sciter.com. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

An embedded engine is also a much faster path to viable use cases. For example Sciter [1] has some degree of success despite implementing only a sane subset of the DOM API. It doesn't work well for general internet surfing, but when used as an UI library you just avoid the parts that don't work. 1: https://sciter.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

I've still never used it but I've long been curious about Sciter: https://sciter.com. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago