Sciter VS Chataigne

> 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 2 months 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

I personnaly use Chataigne which is kind of an equivalent. It's free, open source and cross-platform (and it looks nice). It's an extremely powerful software that can do a lot of different things, however I warn you, it's not a lighting software per say. While you technically can control DMX fixtures entirely from it, by default it doesn't handle fixture management. You can extend that using community plugins or... Source: 5 months ago

Tools like Ossia Score, Chataigne and PureData (pd) can also help a ton in building interactive art and triggering other A/V software. Source: 12 months ago