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March 22, 2024, 1:33 a.m. |

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The Dropflow Playground


Dropflow is a "CSS layout engine" written in TypeScript and taking advantage of the HarfBuzz text shaping engine (used by Chrome, Android, Firefox and more) compiled to WebAssembly to implement glyph layout.


This linked demo is fascinating: on the left hand side you can edit HTML with inline styles, and the right hand side then updates live to show that content rendered by Dropflow in a canvas element.


Why would you want this? It lets you generate …

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