alt Hacker NewsIf HTML engines are better than native UI libraries at rendering rich text, possibly the hardest thing UIs need to render, why would I not also use it to render easier things like buttons or text fields?
Also, OS X rendered its UI with DisplayPDF/Quartz for the longest time.
The native Apple libraries are terrific at rendering rich text, it’s one of their strongest assets.
The poster’s issues seem to be specifically because they want to use markdown as the backing. The native rich text backing for native Apple views is attributed strings. They could translate the markdown to attributed strings, but seems like they don’t want to.