Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Renderer for C++

Re:Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Rende... by watermans on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:13AM (#17733993)

> Chromium is awesome, it really is. But not for embedders.

> the API is currently available for C++ only and requires Direct3D 11 on Windows and Metal on macOS.

“Embedders” here seems to mean “people who want to embed a web UI in a desktop application.” This confused me at first because I wondered why an embedded systems UI framework only supported Windows and macOS instead of Windows and small Unixes.

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Re:Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Rende... by oldmanhorton on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:58AM (#17734495)

"Embedding" is often the term used to describe using a scripting language runtime within a larger app, for example embedding a Lua runtime in a game or a Javascript engine in a database. I'd imagine that was the context for using that term here.

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Re:Show HN: Ultralight – Lightweight, Pure-GPU HTML UI Rende... by adamjs on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:41AM (#17734329)

Thanks for the tip, will update the language to clarify.

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