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0 pointsgigel825y ago0 comments

I like Sciter for the possibilities, but it needs better compatibility with web standards. Being able to port an existing application that uses React -for example- and have it just run would be the cat's meow.

Needing to rewrite with other UI/JS frameworks to account for quirks gives me pause.

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c-smile5y ago· 2 in thread

It depends on what application you have in mind.

React needs web browser compatibility layer to work in Sciter.JS as React was designed strictly for browsers.

For that matter: PReact ( https://preactjs.com/ ) works out of the box already, see : https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/tree/main/samples/p... ;

MithrilJS ( https://mithril.js.org/ ) works as it is also.

SvelteJS works as it is with Sciter.JS too.

Also Sciter.JS has its own native implementation of JSX ( it's built in JS core of Sciter.JS) and also DOM extended by native element.patch(vdom) that makes "reactivity" to work in Sciter.JS with native speed.

Yet quite a lot of UI components are natively built-in. For example:

https://sciter.com/behaviorvirtual-list-for-sciter-and-scite... and https://sciter.com/sciter-js-themes/

gigel82OP5y ago

I think the project is great and I admire your work, but I'm confused about how you position it.

Being "almost" web compatible is not a recipe for success, as it's bound to cause confusion and frustration among folks that want it to be an Electron alternative.

Either embrace Web APIs entirely (perhaps a smaller compatible subset), or just position it as something else entirely, like Flutter.

c-smile5y ago

"how you position it"

Hmm... and how do I do that? What's your impression?

Sciter.JS is "an embeddable HTML/CSS/JS UI engine" and that's it.

Yes, it is possible to use it without touching native side like ElectronJS, see: https://quark.sciter.com/ , but that's not the primary use case. So far it has around 400 mln installations in embedded form as part of other products, see: https://sciter.com/#customers

If you want you can treat it as Flutter that uses time proven and familiar HTML/CSS/JS resource definitions instead of Dart. Dart is close to JS but not JS, Flutter has some DOM but not HTML DOM, it has some style system but quite rudimental one.

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