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> Imagine, if you will, a different scenario. Had Microsoft been prescient enough to see the revival and adoption of HTML and SVG and built WPF on top of these,
by c-smile 9y ago
> Imagine, if you will, a different scenario. Had Microsoft been prescient enough to see the revival and adoption of HTML and SVG and built WPF on top of these, do you think things would have gone differently?
Why to imagine? Sciter ( https://sciter.com https://sciter.com ) is exactly that - embeddable HTML/CSS engine for UI of desktop applications. And it was built at the same time: https://sciter.com/sciter/sciter-vs-wpf/ https://sciter.com/sciter/sciter-vs-wpf/
Its code already works on around 320 mln PCs and Macs "under the hood" so far... Quite comparable with spread of WPF applications, no?
- styfle 9y agoSo this is Electron before Electron existed? Does it have File IO APIs?
- c-smile 9y agoPrimary goal of Sciter is to be an embeddable UI engine. You can embed it into C/C++, .NET, Java, Go, Rust, Python etc. applications. Each of them have mature File I/O primitives. As of Sciter itself ... It does have file I/O to load/read resources and data persistence from script but these are just auxiliary components to its main function (UI).