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Re:Hang on to Your Firefox on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @01:05PM (#49539237)
thanks, i was already looking at this. Most of my skipped tests are reftests with script tag inside, and big part of that script just builds the dom. Thats doable without a real js runtime.
Re:Hang on to Your Firefox on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:27PM (#49531026)
nice to see someone else fighting with the same suite. i run css part of WPT on pdf engine (paged output, no js) and hit most of the same problems.

https://reflowpdf.com/conformance

that's TAL-U-NO-LX in the screenshot, right? Bit self-defeating as an example. That UI is a skin. Fixed bitmap, every knob position and hitbox hardcoded, window can't be resized at all. I don't know offhand whether TAL is on vstgui or juce, but it doesn't much matter, with juce you write resized() by hand and chop up a rectangle with removeFromTop/removeFromLeft until you run out of controls. Either way there's no layout algorithm in there. It's what you end up with when you don't have one...

Photoshop is a strange pick too. The extension layer was CEP, which is literally Chromium, and UXP that replaced it ships flexbox. There's a browser version now as well.

No negativity, but I feel biased towards CSS ;)

Show HN: ReflowPDF – browser PDF editor where tables reflow

https://demo.reflowpdf.com

posted an early version of this here a while back when it was just a waitlist. it's fully live now, and i wanted to show the part that's actually hard.reflowpdf edits pdfs in the browser. almost every other browser pdf tool edits by dropping absolutely positioned text boxes on top of the page. fine until you touch anything. delete a row and the rows under it just sit there, because there's no...

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