The book uses Tk (via Python's tkinter library) for the first 10 chapters and then switches to Skia, which is used by maybe all of the browsers now (I believe Webkit on Linux just switched to it from Cairo). It seems to be by far the most common high-performance 2D graphics library.
I didn’t have a clue. That wasn’t part of my skillset. All we needed was a headless browser that was automated. It was crawling a few million pages a day. I had a debug console where I could see cached pages, headers, cookies, etc.
> [1] The library is used as of 2023 in Google Chrome, ChromeOS, ChromiumOS, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Android, Firefox OS, Flutter,[5] Avalonia (from Alpha 4), LibreOffice (from version 7.0) and RAD Studio[6](since version 12.0).
> [2] Changes to the Skia repository will be rolled into Chromium by the AutoRoll bot several times per day.
> [3] It serves as the graphics engine for Google Chrome and ChromeOS, Android, Flutter, and many other products.
The book uses Tk (via Python's tkinter library) for the first 10 chapters and then switches to Skia, which is used by maybe all of the browsers now (I believe Webkit on Linux just switched to it from Cairo). It seems to be by far the most common high-performance 2D graphics library.
I didn’t have a clue. That wasn’t part of my skillset. All we needed was a headless browser that was automated. It was crawling a few million pages a day. I had a debug console where I could see cached pages, headers, cookies, etc.
I believe Chrome uses Skia
Yes [4].
> [1] The library is used as of 2023 in Google Chrome, ChromeOS, ChromiumOS, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Android, Firefox OS, Flutter,[5] Avalonia (from Alpha 4), LibreOffice (from version 7.0) and RAD Studio[6](since version 12.0).
> [2] Changes to the Skia repository will be rolled into Chromium by the AutoRoll bot several times per day.
> [3] It serves as the graphics engine for Google Chrome and ChromeOS, Android, Flutter, and many other products.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skia_Graphics_Engine
[2]: https://skia.org/docs/dev/chrome/
[3]: https://skia.org/
[4]: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/tree/main/skia
As of 2024, WebKit's Linux ports (GTK and WPE) are switching to Skia too. [0] Prior to that, they used cairo.
[0]: https://blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/2024/02/19/webkit-switchin...
Whoa. Somehow I have not heard of this. Can this be used to make cross-platform GUI apps?
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