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A simple personal website built with SVG

xingyu.wang
2 points·by bdahz·2 years ago·0 comments

Ask HN: What kind of license is good for a rendering engine?

3 points·by bdahz·2 years ago·11 comments

OpenWebF

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bdahz
·last year·discuss
Is this the same guy talking about the same topic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0lFyPuH8Zs

I need a transcript as the FOSDEM website didn't provide a one (404 not found), but youtube has.
bdahz
·last year·discuss
The free download requires account registration, which will discourage most people from trying it. Even third-party login might make it easier, but I didn't find that option.
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
I'm curious what if we replace Rust with C/C++ in those tiers. Would the results be even better or worse than Rust?
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
For the simplicity of implementation and code clarity, I need to know how much I need to pay for it.

If the Haskell implementation is 3x slower than C/C++/Rust implementation, it would be acceptable.

If it's 30x slower, I would rather choose C/C++/Rust even the implementation won't be simple.

If it is even possible to be 3x faster than C/C++/Rust, then why not the mainstream programmers adopt Haskell everywhere?
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
How is the performance when compared to similar implementations in C/C++ or Rust?
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
How does cosmopolitan support GPU-based applications?
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
Related post discussing the rounded shapes (and squircles) in design tools:

https://blog.verygoodgraphics.com/posts/rounded-shapes/
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
Thanks for your advice. I've reverted the license back to 1.0, adjusted the royalty rate, and made the royalty disclaimer more apparent in case someone says it contains a HIDDEN royalty :)

As a small team, we don't expect to make great money just by the royalty. We choose to open source this project for many good reasons. But the only reason of adding royalty is that we want to protect our work from being stolen by some other random guy.
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
Sorry, I was just raising my question. Because in my country most app maker does not care about accessibility. Now I know.
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
The reasons to escape Flash are the performance and power-consumption issues, rather than accessibility.

If you take browser as a document viewer then accessibility is critical. However if you take browser as a universal application platform, then accessibility is not necessary, right?
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
If there is a VGG-native browser then accessibility is not so hard to implement. The awkward problem is that current VeryGoodGraphics is just a canvas node in HTML (using WebAssembly + WebGL). So adding accessibility support will be a nightmare technically.
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
Great advice. Thank you so much!
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
Dual licenses, or triple licenses are common in some open source software. Maybe more rules should be presented to make the dual licensing more clear?
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
My concern is, are GPL-family licenses good enough to let contributors involve with this project? Because I heard that GPL licenses are like viruses and someone hates them.

Or maybe dual licenses are good enough if one of them is Apache License (for personal use only)? This is what VGG License 2.0 does.
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
Does anyone have the idea of escaping from HTML/CSS? As these specs are too complicated and not friendly for web developers as well. Maybe we could re-invent a browser engine without conforming to HTML/CSS specs?

An (early) alternative spec/engine would be a Figma-compatible vector graphics spec[2] and its rendering engine[3]. It is called VeryGoodGraphics[1].

[1] https://verygoodgraphics.com/, the website is built with its own technology (wasm version).

[2] https://docs.verygoodgraphics.com/specs/overview

[3] https://github.com/verygoodgraphics/vgg_runtime
bdahz
·2 years ago·discuss
A tomato clock: https://github.com/harry75369/ESP8266_Tomato