Pretext's most interesting use cases have no DOM at all

Pretext's most interesting use cases have no DOM at all(cyrusradfar.com)

14 points by cyrusradfar 70 days ago | 5 comments

lewisjoe 69 days ago |

This is not an accurate take. Especially the SSR one. Pretext doesn't liberate text layout from the browser entirely (at least not yet). It still uses canvas.measureText that does critical heavy lifting like font fallbacks, default styles, etc.

Once you take pretext out of browser environment, you'll have to worry about lot more things around fonts.

cyrusradfar 69 days ago | |

OP here, you're right. I discuss that as a next step at the end. The process to get to this point is the insight to how to accomplish this cross platforms.

cyrusradfar 67 days ago | | |

Update:

A port to Swift has been released April 1 by Tornike Gomareli (https://x.com/tornikegomareli) the community so now it's able to be used in Mac Native apps

  - tweet: https://x.com/tornikegomareli/status/2039516374788124865
  - repo: https://github.com/tornikegomareli/swift-pretextkit

lewisjoe 68 days ago | | |

Got it! :)

pjmlp 69 days ago |

Basically, yet another group of folks rediscovered native text layout engines.

Back and forth the pendulum goes.