Scope of the project
The point of this project is to provide platform for developing desktop and TV applications in a way which is familiar to web developers but not necessarily the same.
The table below provides a bit more info but in general:
- you are expected to use modern IDE, preferrably with type-checking because we are doing very little validation
- deprecated/exotic features are generally not supported at all
- if it can be easily replaced with JS it's probably out-of-scope for now
- popular libraries are expected to run fine eventually (if not already)
Notable limitations
The table below provides some info about what's left out. Some of those might be available in deno and/or provided by some external modules.
| General features | |
|---|---|
| accessibility | no, sorry |
| RTL, vertical langs | N/A |
| printing, PDF | N/A |
| canvas, WebGL | TODO |
| SVG | TODO |
| DOM | |
|---|---|
| innerHTML | ✅ |
| innerText | N/A |
| custom elements, shadow DOM | N/A |
| (i)frames | N/A |
| CSS | |
|---|---|
| values | specified-only, no inherit |
| colors | hex, rgb(a), lowercase names |
| layout | flex, block, no float |
| transitions | maybe later |
| CSSOM | subset for CSS-in-JS |
| media queries | use JS |