Forking Chrome to render in a terminal

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I wrote about forking Chrome to turn HTML to SVG two months ago, today we're going to do something similar by making it render into a terminal. Let me introduce you to the Carbonyl web browser! Drawing Read more..

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Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG

I've been working on a program called html2svg, it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork of Chromium to support modern web standards. This post explains most patches. Take a picture Chromium is built on top of Blink: an HTML engine forked from WebKit, and Skia: a 2D engine also used in Firefox and Android. Blink consumes the HTML input, and Skia produces the graphical output. The Chromium compositor (cc) is in between, but we'll ignore it for now. Read more..

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