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Question to authors: do you have any graphics layer in-place? Or at least thoughts about its future architecture?

I am thinking about porting my Sciter [1] HTML/CSS UI Engine to an OS that can be used on small (IoT) devices. I think that HTML/CSS as a UI definition/declaration language is quite convenient.

[1] http://sciter.com

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OP here. Sciter looks cool, nice site too. Currently Minoca has support for a basic framebuffer, which we use to display our green terminal. Our biggest obstacle to having a GUI now is the lack of accelerated graphics drivers. We'd like to add them, but it will be a very large undertaking and probably require cooperation from one of the major graphics vendors.

Once you get at least one accelerated graphics driver implemented, would you design your own GUI framework/toolkit, or use an existing one like Qt?

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