Pretext's most interesting use cases have no DOM at all
14 points by cyrusradfar
by lewisjoe
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This is not an accurate take. Especially the SSR one. Pretext doesn't liberate text layout from the browser entirely (at least not yet). It still uses canvas.measureText that does critical heavy lifting like font fallbacks, default styles, etc.
Once you take pretext out of browser environment, you'll have to worry about lot more things around fonts.
by pjmlp
0 subcomment
Basically, yet another group of folks rediscovered native text layout engines.
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