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Sciter mentions (67)

• Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>

  > 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

• Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements

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

• Immediate Mode GUI Programming

  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

• Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation

  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

• Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more

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

PyQt mentions (4)

• Python vs. JavaScript: Is It a Fair Comparison?

  JavaScript is a clear winner in the category of mobile development. There are some niche frameworks to do mobile development with Python—like Kivy and PyQT—but pretty much nobody uses them. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• what would be the best looking GUI framework to develop a desktop python application? (other than Tkinter)

  If none of those are to your liking, you can use PyQT (or Pyside) but the learning curve is much steeper. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is there a "Windows Forms" GUI designer for Python?

  Also, there is the PyQt module which is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the Qt GUI. It has Qt Designer. Source: over 2 years ago

• Best way to install qutebrowser?

  As for PyQt, that's developed entirely independently from Qt (by Riverbank Computing). The major/minor versions usually line up with the respective Qt releases (since the Qt release introduces new APIs, so a new PyQt release is needed to expose those to Python). However, it's versioned independently, and a new patch release of PyQt might be needed before/without Qt releasing a new patch release. For more details,... Source: about 3 years ago