Post @onusoz · /2026/03/28· 03:58 PM View on Wow even I as a frontend noob understand the significance of this Some distant memory from 15 years ago needing to measure the width/height of some text and finding out it’s not possible to do reliably in web More beautiful typography for the web! @_chenglou· Mar 28, 2026My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflowShow more
@onusoz · /2026/03/28· 03:58 PM View on Wow even I as a frontend noob understand the significance of this Some distant memory from 15 years ago needing to measure the width/height of some text and finding out it’s not possible to do reliably in web More beautiful typography for the web! @_chenglou· Mar 28, 2026My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflowShow more
