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Show HN: WPF grade canvas UI framework for the web

1•zionsati•1h ago
Introducing fui-as - https://github.com/zion-sati/fui-as

This is a WPF grade UI framework with SwiftUI like fluent syntax that is created specifically for the web. As you probably know, creating a native feeling canvas wasm UI framework for the web is a massive ask but the goal is to make it feel as native as possible.

I've solved ARIA compliance problem, there's semantic tree by default but customisable. With brotli, the actual page is quite small, the demo pages are all under 100kb. The other bits such as the runtime and font assets are download once, cached forever.

It uses yoga, harfbuzz, ICU, skia for responsive UI, proper text formatting, shapes and shapes of modern UI, and comes with ICU data for all languages including Chinese Japanese and Korean. It also supports font tofu swapping, which is when you haven't loaded a font for a language but your user pasted some text in that language in text input/area.

Plenty more problems I've already solved which typically is canvas apps' biggest setbacks.

There are a few I have yet to implement, such as rendering a shadow DOM for pure Dev tool debugging purposes. Most likely it'll be opt in under Dev mode.

Other things like long press gesture and pinch to zoom are not done either.

I'm working on immediate more custom drawing as well as drawing text onto both immediate mode and memory bitmap canvases (yes canvas inside HTML canvas).

Maybe there's no point for such a thing any more these days when everyone can simply hackle AI to do things adhoc. But maybe someone out there still appreciates some good old engineering.

Shoehorning R-Type into the ESP32

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/06/17/1200
1•rcarmo•1m ago•0 comments

Mastodon 4.6 – Collections, profiles, and other improvements

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/
2•jrepinc•1m ago•0 comments

The coming El Niño could be the strongest ever recorded

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/06/16/the-coming-el-nino-could-be-the-stron...
1•andsoitis•2m ago•0 comments

I Spent $47,000 on Claude Code in 90 Days. My CTO Asked Me One Question and

https://medium.com/@developer_programmer/i-spent-47-000-on-claude-code-in-90-days-my-cto-asked-me...
1•ashurov•5m ago•0 comments

How We All Became Little Blue Dots on a Digital Map

https://lithub.com/how-we-all-become-little-blue-dots-on-a-digital-map/
1•pseudolus•6m ago•0 comments

Making budget models punch above their weight with a smart Rust harness

https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-06-08-dirge-code.html
2•yogthos•6m ago•0 comments

Eventual Consistency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency
1•cl3misch•8m ago•0 comments

Can LLMs be trusted as EDA analysts? Read our paper

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00051
1•Applied_AI•8m ago•0 comments

The Arm That Floats Under Your Hand – Industrial and Manufacturing

https://atomsfrontier.substack.com/p/the-arm-that-floats-under-your-hand
1•jpatel3•9m ago•0 comments

Amit Patel (Red Blob Games) on Making Things

https://digitalseams.com/blog/amit-patel-on-making-things
1•bobbiechen•9m ago•0 comments

Updated Anthropic Privacy Policy (effective 7/8/26)

https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy
1•maxutility•9m ago•0 comments

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

https://www.404media.co/ice-appears-to-be-buying-immigrants-tax-identifiers-from-a-data-broker/
2•ilreb•10m ago•0 comments

Lightpanda Agent and PandaScript – LLM at buildtime, not runtime

https://lightpanda.io/blog/posts/introducing-lightpanda-agent-and-pandascript
2•fbouvier•11m ago•0 comments

Thirdpass – The app I wanted every time I left the house

https://thirdpass.pages.dev/
3•yakuh•12m ago•0 comments

Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

https://arun.is/blog/jr-logo/
1•ddrmaxgt37•13m ago•0 comments

'Student Geng' ignites China research-integrity scandal calling out sr academics

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01902-0
1•randycupertino•13m ago•1 comments

AppleOS 27

https://cupertinolens.com/2026/06/17/introducing-appleos-27/
1•brandonb•13m ago•0 comments

What's that sound? It's Mount Pleasant's new AI data center [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc5XZJfF0kQ
2•haunter•14m ago•0 comments

HN: Maturana – Secure-by-design, zero-trust personal agent framework

https://www.maturana.sh/
1•hestefisk•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AptSelect – A local LLM client for parallel testing and evaluation

https://aptselect.com
2•dhavalt•16m ago•0 comments

Personal taste fell out of fashion

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/14/have-i-been-influenced-personal-taste-out-of-fashio...
1•ripe•17m ago•0 comments

Al Gore: Scientists were dead right: 20th anniversary of 'An Inconvenient Truth'

https://abcnews.com/US/scientists-dead-al-gore-20th-anniversary-inconvenient-truth/story?id=13392...
2•SilverElfin•18m ago•0 comments

AI Growth – Honest AI Tools Directory and Metrics Dashboard

https://ai-growth.pplx.app/
2•Nannous•18m ago•0 comments

Final DNS Outage of 5 May 2026

https://blog.denic.de/en/final-report-dns-outage-of-5-may-2026/
1•emilburzo•18m ago•0 comments

Appreciation for the Small Web

https://jola.dev/posts/appreciation-for-the-small-web
1•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

Struggling for My Startup

1•roserugco•20m ago•2 comments

A collection of every site on the web

https://everytab.site/
3•fcjr•22m ago•0 comments

Status of Jerusalem holiest site threatened as Israeli nationalists flout rules

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy0nlv90jno
1•root-parent•23m ago•0 comments

Ten years of ClickHouse in open source

https://clickhouse.com/blog/open-source-10
1•tosh•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AutomatiQ – Reverse-Engineering Agent for the Web

https://github.com/StoneSteel27/AutomatiQ
1•stonesteel27•25m ago•0 comments