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That’s a good point. Using Puppeteer or a headless browser gives you essentially full web platform support. The tradeoff is that it comes with a heavier runtime
by sammycage 1y ago
That’s a good point. Using Puppeteer or a headless browser gives you essentially full web platform support. The tradeoff is that it comes with a heavier runtime and more moving parts (Chromium, Node, etc.). PlutoPrint aims to be much lighter: no browser dependency, just a compact C++ engine with a Python wrapper. It does not cover the entire browser feature set but it is fast, portable, and easy to drop into projects without the overhead of a full browser.
- nicoburns 1y agoInteresting. I was not aware of PlutoBook! We're doing a very similar thing (custom lightweight engine) over at https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz. We have more of a focus on UI, but there's definitely overlap (we support rendering to image, but don't have pagination/fragmentation implemented). Have you run the WPT tests against your engine to test spec conformance?
- realitysballs 1y agoExcellent response
- nutjob2 1y agoYour approach is also more predictable. Trying to figure out why Chromium is doing something strange with a complicated page is not practical, while a simple, lean package like this means you can look at the code, trace it and patch it if need be.
- specproc 1y agoI did this for a project recently, using Firefox and Selenium. It totally worked, but was very heavy on the dependencies and felt very clumsy. This is exactly what I was looking for a few months ago. I might revisit that project with it.