I saw this going around Threads, do you Twikians think we could do anything cool with this?
It’s a pure Typescript text arrangement library that is apparently 500x faster than DOM.
In which context did you see this library? For what do you intend to use that.
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I don’t know exactly or have a use in mind, I just thought it would be a good fit for Tiddlywiki since it’s pure JavaScript.
The gif demos I saw in threads were pretty awesome with low latency responsive text reflowing, so maybe it could work good as like formatting fancy poetry Wikis or something where the user wants to make shapes of the poetry or something
@pmario this video could help to understand what prextext could be used for.
For those who want to make impressive layouts it could be a gamechanger. Perhaps we could have a pretext layout for TW.
Interesting demos.
The browser layout engine and TW layouts are completely different things. The library will not help us to create impressive TW layouts. It can help to animate text.
The demos are nice but I did not see a single thing of value, for our usecase. The performance problems some of our users have, has not much to do with the browser layout engine. It has to do with ultra long lists of tiddler links, where the generation of TWs JS event handlers is the slow part.