font-rs VS htmlwg

Compare font-rs vs htmlwg and see what are their differences.

Our great sponsors
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
font-rs htmlwg
1 1
747 8
- -
10.0 10.0
over 3 years ago about 2 years ago
Rust
Apache License 2.0 -
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

font-rs

Posts with mentions or reviews of font-rs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.

htmlwg

Posts with mentions or reviews of htmlwg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-18.
  • A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2023
    HTML the markup language was clearly intended as an SGML vocabulary - TBL himself said as much [1] and HTML also reused element names from the SGML spec/handbook as example/folklore vocabulary such as for paragraphs and headings.

    What browsers made out of it isn't the matter here, but even if it were, the "practical, real-world HTML out there" argument is mostly used to pull up the ladder by an ad company/browser cartel made worse day-in day-out through an atrocious and absurdly voluminous HTML spec (and by CSS, of course).

    Even though Ian Hickson, of WHATWG, wanted to capture HTML as it was understood by browsers, he couldn't help but added additional elements of his own - such as for marking up ads as "aside" lol plus the alien sectioning elements concepts that gave rise to the flawed "outline algorithm" and misuse of heading elements (and earlier failure to understand SGML's RANK feature), a problem that was only fixed last year [2].

    In practice, very few changes to the HTML syntax brought HTML outside SGML - for the most part, ad-hoc and basically unnecessary commenting rules for the script and styles element to keep legacy browsers from rendering JavaScript and CSS, resp., when those where introduced.

    [1]: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html

    [2]: https://github.com/w3c/htmlwg/issues/22

What are some alternatives?

When comparing font-rs and htmlwg you can also consider the following projects:

ab-glyph - Rust API for loading, scaling, positioning and rasterizing OpenType font glyphs

hayagriva - Rusty bibliography management.

WebKit