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USU-grassRoots / paper-de

A desktop environment implementation of google's material design
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Determine html rendering engine #4

Open rbingham opened 8 years ago

rbingham commented 8 years ago

Here is a list of possible html rendering engines:

  1. Webkit
  2. Gecko
  3. Blink. How to embed blink
  4. nwjs
  5. litehtm
  6. Servo. How to embed servo

The html rendering engine will be key to making our de a fast and robust application. We need to decide which one will work best with what we are trying to accomplish.

srphillips commented 8 years ago

Blink and Servo look to be the front runners. Blink because it is an actively developed fork of Webkit that works well, and Servo because parallel rendering is (IMHO) the future and extraordinarily fast. Gecko as Mozilla's current render engine is a good backup and Webkit or node-webkit/nwjs is probably behind those. Litehtm is light and works, but that's about it.