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A. FUCKING. ELECTRON. BROWSER. ಠ_ಠ Just so I don’t get this comment killed, here’s some text calmly explaining that electron is based off blink, and implementi
by pls2halp 9y ago
A. FUCKING. ELECTRON. BROWSER. ಠ_ಠ
Just so I don’t get this comment killed, here’s some text calmly explaining that electron is based off blink, and implementing a browser in it is like using a text editor’s scripting feature to reimplement the cursor.
- ricardobeat 9y agoMore like using the cursor to reimplement the UI. Like... vim and a million other editors? Firefox has been switching from their custom markup (XUL) to HTML for its UI, and you’ll find that the web inspector in Chrome, Safari and Firefox are already implemented in HTML/CSS/JS (don’t know about Edge).
- yoz-y 9y agoIsn’t Vivaldi basically that as well? If you do not care about the rendering (as in, making a new engine isn’t your purpose). Then electron seems like a good way of developing a browser.
- chr1 9y agoThis is like using web rendering engine to implement a browser, which is not ridiculous at all. The difference from chromium is that the browser ui is implemented using the web tech, instead of native, which is not unusual either. Firefox have been using slightly modified version of html and javascript to implement the browser ui forever. Vivaldi and brave browsers use the same method as well.