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htmlayout.com domain and project is for sale
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50 million PCs are running Sciter or HTMLayout code.
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Quite conservative estimation of number of PCs and Mac’s running either Sciter or HTMLayout code is 50 million worldwide so far. Thanks to Sciter/HTMLayout customers and their great applications. UPDATE: I’ve been told that at least one of companies from the list has 90 million registered users. So the total number is way above 100…
10 years road to Sciter
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Last year it was a jubilee of my BlockNote editor – it is 10 years old now. Quite a serious age for software product I think. BlockNote, in particular its HTML WYSIWYG editing engine, was the very first version of H-SMILE core that works now inside the Sciter. H-SMILE core was used in other software…
“Theory” of URLs for developers
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We are using URLs these days quite a lot, but not all of us understand what they actually are. By this post I will try to explain their structure and how Sciter/HTMLayout deals with them. Please note that this is sort of informal explanation and I am using term “URL” here while “URI” is more…
HTMLayout, GoLang wrapper by EricRoy
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GitHub: github.com/ericroy/go-htmlayout Project status Go-htmlayout is written for Go1. Most of the HTMLayout API has been wrapped (especially dom element related stuff), but there is still more of the HTMLayout API that I haven’t tackled yet. Tests are also incomplete at this point. In short, this wrapper is probably not ready for serious production use.
Sciter 2.0.0.12
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Just published Sciter 2.0.0.12 SDK that is available at terrainformatica.com/sciter/sciter2-tech-preview.zip. What’s new in the build: Demos: bin/layered.exe (sdk/demos/layered) demonstrates use of WS_EX_LAYERED windows. That is about windows of non-rectangular shapes. W7 has better support of such windows so even animations are feasible on such windows. Just run the demo to see. CSS features: New layout…
Sciter v.2 technology preview
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You can download Sciter v.2 SDK preview from here http://terrainformatica.com/sciter/sciter2-tech-preview.zip /bin/sciter.exe in the archive is a demo application to play with. Its sources are in /demos/sciter/ folder. After start you should see something like this: Note: this version works only on Vista/W7 as it uses Direct2D/Write graphics backend. Aero and W7 Basic DWMs only for…
C++0x: Running code in GUI thread from worker threads.
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One of topics in design of multi-threading GUI applications is to choose method of calling GUI code from so called worker threads – threads that do some work in background. At some point they need to report results to the GUI. But GUI is a shareable resource so some form of synchronization is required. One…
DirectWrite font rendering.
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While experimenting with Direct2D/Write back-ends for htmlayout/sciter got these results: Rendering of <textarea> in default DirectWrite mode: The same but in GDI: Probably subjective but classic GDI rendering is better for typical UI font. DirectWrite variant is more blurry (especially note the selection). So I forced to add one more proprietary CSS property: font-rendering-mode: classic…
Style sets in H-SMILE core.
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HTMLayout and Sciter are both use H-SMILE core to render HTML/CSS. And so both of them support so called style sets. In this article I’ll try to explain what style set is about and why I decided to introduce them. First of all: Style set is a named block of style rules – definition of…