zionsati

Introducing fui-as - https://github.com/zion-sati/fui-as

This is a WPF grade UI framework with SwiftUI like fluent syntax that is created specifically for the web. As you probably know, creating a native feeling canvas wasm UI framework for the web is a massive ask but the goal is to make it feel as native as possible.

I've solved ARIA compliance problem, there's semantic tree by default but customisable. With brotli, the actual page is quite small, the demo pages are all under 100kb. The other bits such as the runtime and font assets are download once, cached forever.

It uses yoga, harfbuzz, ICU, skia for responsive UI, proper text formatting, shapes and shapes of modern UI, and comes with ICU data for all languages including Chinese Japanese and Korean. It also supports font tofu swapping, which is when you haven't loaded a font for a language but your user pasted some text in that language in text input/area.

Plenty more problems I've already solved which typically is canvas apps' biggest setbacks.

There are a few I have yet to implement, such as rendering a shadow DOM for pure Dev tool debugging purposes. Most likely it'll be opt in under Dev mode.

Other things like long press gesture and pinch to zoom are not done either.

I'm working on immediate more custom drawing as well as drawing text onto both immediate mode and memory bitmap canvases (yes canvas inside HTML canvas).

Maybe there's no point for such a thing any more these days when everyone can simply hackle AI to do things adhoc. But maybe someone out there still appreciates some good old engineering.

I am preparing to release a software project under the AGPLv3. The goal is traditional copyleft reciprocity - if you use it or host it, share your changes.

However, I am realistic about the current legal landscape. Big tech corps are treating public code as free raw material for LLM training under the banner of "Fair Use". I am concerned that a company will ingest my codebase and use an LLM to effectively launder the logic, allowing their users to prompt a clean, closed-source recreation of my software without triggering the AGPL.

Do we have a licence specifically to prevent this but still keep OSS healthy and alive? Do we have a llm.txt / robots.txt that LLM scrapers respect? I feel that the whole OSS model is under threat here, even more than before (e.g. big corps earn billions from Linux instances without having to pay any software licensing cost, but they're more than happy to charge others for their own OS).