Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node

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.

Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node

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Post by modeless » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:05 PM UTC

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.

Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node

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Post by Matheus28 » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

MortyWaves wrote: post #4

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.

It's the "html canvas drawing api" that "browserless" refers to

Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node

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Post by sroussey » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:08 PM UTC

MortyWaves wrote: post #4

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.

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

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Post by derefr » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:10 PM UTC

MortyWaves wrote: post #4

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.

Re: Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node

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Post by Feathercrown » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:18 PM UTC

I'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

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Post by MortyWaves » Tue, Dec 03, 2024, 6:23 PM UTC

sroussey wrote: post #7

MortyWaves wrote: post #4

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.

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