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by spacechild1 490 days ago
> A GUI proposal also was in the work for a while, then dropped because of lack of interest.

Are your sure? I can remember proposals for 2D graphics, but I have never heard of a GUI proposal. Graphics is only concerned with drawing things on a canvas. GUIs are about, well, graphical user interfaces which also involve user input, even handling, window management, etc.
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gpderetta 490 days ago
You might be right and I might be misremembering. I thought there was a some point a subcomittee looking into GUIs in addition to the 2d graphic proposal.

edit: I think SG13 was supposed to look into GUIs at some point, but with even the 2d graphic proposal failing, it was disbanded.

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jcranmer 490 days ago
The closest I think they got to a concrete proposal was web_view (https://wg21.link/p1108).
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spacechild1 490 days ago
Interesting! AFAICT this would allow to run some JS code in a web browser, right? One thing I don't understand:

> Each web_view class instance represents an independent, asynchronous web-content interface. The provided web_view shall support content complying with the [HTML5], [PNG], and [ECMAScript] standards.

Who is supposed to provide the runtime?

Also, it shows how to call a JS function and get the result back in C++, but how would you interface with C++ from within JS (e.g. in an event handler)?

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