> 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 / 3 months ago

[2] https://sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/select-variants.png. - Source: Hacker News / 4 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 / 5 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 / 7 months ago

I've still never used it but I've long been curious about Sciter: https://sciter.com. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

I've recently mentioned Ultimate++, if you want something application-oriented, portable, and lightweight. And on Windows, it even comes with its own compiler so you can just unpack and run it. But if you happen to have closed-source binary libraries for a specific compiler (such as MSVC, as is common on Windows) than you need consume, the IDE included with Ultimate++ can work with your own compiler, too. Because... Source: about 2 years ago