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Playwright
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Servo
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InfluxDB
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webview
Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
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qt-ultralight-browser
Ultra-lightweight web browser based on Qt Ultralight webview, powered by Ultralight HTML renderer
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qtwebkit
Discontinued Code in this repository is obsolete. Use this fork: https://github.com/movableink/webkit
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Ultralight discussion
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- Ultralight – Universal, Pure-GPU HTML Renderer
- Lightpanda: The headless browser designed for AI and automation
- Verso – web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
- Ultralight: Display Web-Content Everywhere
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Writing a TrueType font renderer
[2] https://ultralig.ht/
- This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
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Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta
Web rendering would be Blink, with V8 being the JavaScript engine. I believe they have their own UI rendering process.
I know of another company that does something similar for the UI process, but with WebKit instead as the base:
https://github.com/ultralight-ux/ultralight#rocket-dual-high...
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Ode to the M1
What I'd really like to see with CEF et al, is JS being dropped, in favor of directly controlling the DOM from the host language. Then we could, for example, write a Rust (or Kotlin, Zig, Haskell, etc) desktop application that simply directly manipulated the DOM, and had it rendered by a HTML+CSS layout engine. Folks could then write a React-like framework for that language (to help render & re-render the DOM in an elegant way).
Ultralight (https://ultralig.ht/) looks pretty cool. I think another possible option is Servo (https://github.com/servo/servo) – it was abandoned by Mozilla along with Rust during their layoffs a while back (but the project still seems to have a decent bit of activity). It would be great if some group of devs could revive the project, or a company could fund such a revival.
Eventually, we'll need to reflect on, and explore whether HTML+CSS is really the best way to do layout, and we could maybe perhaps consider proting the Android/iOS layout approach over to desktop.
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