Stretch – A flexbox implementation in Rust

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> We have over 250 tests passing, most of which are autogenerated from running the same layout in Chrome. This ensures web-compatibility and overall correctness.

So if it outputs like Chrome, then it is web-compatible? While I understand this from a practical point of view, this is also clearly a result of render engine mono-culture.

Let's see how innovation goes within a 5-10 year time frame if everything is bound to Google Chrome.

Author of stretch here! I would love to add tests for other browsers as well, and it should be pretty easy as we are just relying on webdriver. Targeting chrome was done as a first step as I had previously set up webdriver tests with it so that was just easiest :) The goal is for general web compatibility and not just chrome-compatibility though.

thanks. Didn't know the author is reading here :)

on an unrelated note there's some discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/agja9z/stretch_a_flex... you might be interested in.

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