Show HN: UI system completely painted on HTML5 Canvas (early demo)

Post by nvictor » Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 6:06 PM UTC

nadam wrote: post #5

garethsprice wrote: post #4

Firefox 8.0.1: Click on the demo app area, everything disappears.

Thanks for the bug report. I've tested on Firefox 8.0.1 on Windows 7, it works here. Maybe it behaves differently on different operating systems?

Post by tommoor » Mon, Dec 12, 2011, 3:03 AM UTC

ricardobeat wrote: post #11

IMO this is interesting as a technical exercise, and stops there. Its dynamic layout, dynamic stylesheets, customizable painting and conceptual simplicity beats modern desktop/plugin/platform-locked technologies That sounds like HTML+CSS+JS. Bitmap drawing is nothing new. What are the expected advantages of creating a whole new renderer, graphics library, and UI kit inside an enviroment that already offers essentiall…

Post by tomaskafka » Sat, Dec 17, 2011, 9:53 PM UTC

nadam wrote: post #10

tomaskafka wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry man, this just goes against the grain of the web - the future is imo in using browser as a smart, hw accelerated runtime that is native on every platform, not in creating a dumb/slow proprietary emulation layer inside. Flash has already lost, and whatever good it had (fast accelerated video) has already been made native.

The problem with this is that the web is driven by commitees, so innovation is terribly slow. For example there is no real dynamic layout in web standards, which is crazy. (Look at my v0.1 GridPanel class and compare it to CSS layout...) I want to create a system in which people can create their own components, own layout managers, etc... This thing should not replace the web, but has a place in UI tech research and…