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colbyn | 6 months ago

Oh also I’d like to add to the above, the TextKit2 API is way more freeform than people think. You could probably implement your own web browser upon it with optimized line by line text rendering (which isn’t that bad). One thing I always wanted to experiment with is rendering markdown content with horizontally scrollable text fragments for table rows and certain fenced code blocks. Super cool and practical idea for native markdown text rendering. Moreover, in some ways it seems pretty easy to do in TextKit2 since you get very fine grained control over text layout fragment rendering.

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nicoburns|6 months ago

> You could probably implement your own web browser upon it with optimized line by line text rendering

I actually have an ambition to do this. I already have most of the layout engine. The use case is for a React Native like framework that can render spec-compliant web content.

krzyzanowskim|6 months ago

we could build a space rocket with it if we only knew how to use it, so it would not glitch