Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
by dbrgn on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @07:01PM
(#29817096)
Developing UI components based on ContentEditable is trial and error, with a lot of code held together by cross-browser integration tests where you always have to pray that a browser upgrade doesn't brake something new in a subtle and surprising way...
1/5, would not recommend. (But sometimes there's no way around it.)
Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
by TheGoddessInari on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:59PM
(#29818701)
> There’s plenty of weird cruft in Firefox’s ~30 year old codebase that causes bugs and unspecified behavior.
Just wondering where you're getting "30 years" from?
That asked, a Chrome-shaped monoculture doesn't help anybody. We need more competing implementations, not less. Anyone feel like collaborating on such?
Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
by jitl on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:12AM
(#29823719)
Netscape was founded in 1994, Firefox is derived from Gecko (1997) layout code code open-sourced from Netscape in 1998. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(software) for some background. I was thinking 1994 when I wrote the comment, but it’s closer to ~25 years if you reckon from Gecko’s birth year of 1997.
Re:Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
by hiptobecubic on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:34PM
(#29819433)
Are you casually asking if anyone wants to start writing a rendering engine?
There are plenty of gotchas in layout/rendering as well, where either the standard is under specified, or Firefox has some small bugs. Maybe Chrome has many-chrome only APIs, but the developer will always need to test in Chrome and iOS Safari 13 (or whatever your oldest supported iOS version is).
Chrome and iOS are where the users are, and a good website or app should be usable and beautiful for everyone.