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Kind 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.
Is this like a wrapper for the Rust crate? https://rust-skia.github.io/doc/skia_safe/canvas/struct.Canv...
Huh, 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.
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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
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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.
Automattic created node-canvas a long time ago which was based around Cairo.
Looks like it would have been a lot easier if this existed back then. (haven't worked on the site for 5+ years)
Kind 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.
It was created by Apple as a wrapper for CoreGraphics back around Mac OS X Tiger 10.4. (IIRC, Canvas even debuted in Apple's Dashboard widgets rather than Safari? I'm not 100% sure.)
I remember writing my own Canvas implementation around 2008-2009 using JavaScriptCore and CoreGraphics. It took maybe two days. I used it for a video application where JS plugins needed to render 2D graphics but I couldn't provide a browser engine because that would have been too slow and unpredictable for render functions that get called in the video render loop.
Could this be consumed by Konva js for SSR ?
It'll also be interesting to see how well this slots into things like VS Code for live-rendering canvas code (or code that has a translation layer for running on a web canvas)