What does HackerNews think of css-paint-polyfill?

CSS Custom Paint / Paint Worklet polyfill with special browser optimizations.

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The Staggering Frontiers of CSS | Jun 2023
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CSS Houdini is (I think) still A Thing, but I believe the browser devs have (rightly!) decided to concentrate on fixing more important issues first.

I believe the CSS Painting API[1] is the most advanced of the set? It has shipped in Chrome, behind a flag in Safari, and there's a polyfill[2] that (may/may not) work for unsupported browsers.

But the key issue with Houdini is that it requires JS to be enabled before it can do its magic ...

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Paintin...

[2] - https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/css-paint-polyfill
CSS Houdini | May 2021
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https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/css-paint-polyfill

Seems there is for parts of it already
Houdini.how | Dec 2020
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At least for paint, there are equivalents in other browsers. -webkit-canvas serves the same purpose in Safari as paint worklets do in Chromium.

Standardizing these APIs is a good thing, because it empowers people to make use of them.

Looks like there's a polyfill that lets you use the same paint worklet across the major engines: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/css-paint-polyfill