[fassssst]

AppKit and SwiftUI and WinUI are all meh for rendering lots of text. Chromium is quite good at it.

Plus they have lots of embedded web content these days and managing webviews is a relative pain vs it all being one webview

[never_inline]

It's fairly simple sans-serif text with some markdown formatting, eh?

[fassssst]

Yea but rendering a book’s worth of that, with text selection and embedded web content, is not trivial with the native UI frameworks like it is with web UI.

[stogot]

Why is a browser tool better at rendering text than native?

[fassssst]

Because web sites have always been about rendering huge scrollable amounts of text and images

[jazzyjackson]

Because there is more competition to render sites in a pleasing way, switching cost is lower. The operating systems have a high switching cost, very few people will learn a new OS because the text is a little fuzzy.