Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
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Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
#2Is this like a wrapper for the Rust crate?
https://rust-skia.github.io/doc/skia_safe/canvas/struct.Canv...
Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
#3Is this like a wrapper for the Rust crate? https://rust-skia.github.io/doc/skia_safe/canvas/struct.Canv...
yes, generated by napi-rs
Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
#4Kind of strange to call it browserless as though Skia requires one to begin with. Been using the .NET Skia library in CLI and desktop applications for a while.
Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
#5Huh, it's more than just a rendering API: "can render to windows using an OS-native graphics pipeline and provides a browser-like UI event framework". They could add wgpu to get WebGPU support and ANGLE to get WebGL support.
Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
#6Kind of strange to call it browserless as though Skia requires one to begin with. Been using the .NET Skia library in CLI and desktop applications for a while.
It's the "html canvas drawing api" that "browserless" refers to
Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
#7Kind of strange to call it browserless as though Skia requires one to begin with. Been using the .NET Skia library in CLI and desktop applications for a while.
Node is a browserless JS engine. I don’t see why saying browserless is weird.
Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
#8Kind of strange to call it browserless as though Skia requires one to begin with. Been using the .NET Skia library in CLI and desktop applications for a while.
They're not saying Skia itself is browserless; they're saying that "Skia Canvas" is a non-browser-based implementation of what people would normally call the browser Canvas API.
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#9I've been waiting for this for a long time. Previous attempts to do similar things required installing Node-Gyp, which was a nightmare.
Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node
#10Kind of strange to call it browserless as though Skia requires one to begin with. Been using the .NET Skia library in CLI and desktop applications for a while.
Node is a browserless JS engine. I don’t see why saying browserless is weird.
I don’t think anyone ever thought Node was a browser thing though