Based on our record, Sciter seems to be a lot more popular than Google Cobalt. While we know about 67 links to Sciter, we've tracked only 3 mentions of Google Cobalt. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I'm surprised Netflix doesn't just use Cobalt like Youtube probably does, but it looks like they use their own internal thing called Gibbon. Source: about 2 years ago
The YouTube app on Apple TV is absolutely atrocious. I can’t believe either Apple or Google think it’s acceptable — it must be one of the most-used apps on tvOS, and is easily the worst I’ve ever come across. It seems to be built with Cobalt [1], so it’s basically HTML5, pretending to be a native app. A short list of flaws which have infuriated me for months: • Scrolling is completely broken. Scroll down a... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Cobalt is this: https://cobalt.foo/. I believe that it practically replaces a browser and has small footprint, so you can use it to run web apps on devices that can't run Chrome and thus can't have PWAs via browser. Source: almost 3 years 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 / 3 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
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