Pretext's most interesting use cases have no DOM at all(cyrusradfar.com)

14 pointsby cyrusradfar3 miesiące temu5 comments

Pretext's most interesting use cases have no DOM at all

https://cyrusradfar.com/thoughts/pretext-beyond-the-browser

5 comments

lewisjoe3 miesiące temu

This is not an accurate take. Especially the SSR one. Pretext doesn't liberate text layout from the browser entirely (at least not yet). It still uses canvas.measureText that does critical heavy lifting like font fallbacks, default styles, etc.

Once you take pretext out of browser environment, you'll have to worry about lot more things around fonts.

cyrusradfar3 miesiące temu

OP here, you're right. I discuss that as a next step at the end. The process to get to this point is the insight to how to accomplish this cross platforms.

cyrusradfar3 miesiące temu

Update:

A port to Swift has been released April 1 by Tornike Gomareli (https://x.com/tornikegomareli) the community so now it's able to be used in Mac Native apps

  - tweet: https://x.com/tornikegomareli/status/2039516374788124865
  - repo: https://github.com/tornikegomareli/swift-pretextkit

lewisjoe3 miesiące temu

Got it! :)

pjmlp3 miesiące temu

Basically, yet another group of folks rediscovered native text layout engines.

Back and forth the pendulum goes.