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well I wouldn't recommend webkit-gtk either, but there's a whole lot of other controls and stuff in gtk that were designed for desktop apps. Just seems silly to
by tomc1985 9y ago
well I wouldn't recommend webkit-gtk either, but there's a whole lot of other controls and stuff in gtk that were designed for desktop apps. Just seems silly to have to go through all those lengths just to preserve a JS/HTML/CSS workflow when you can get the same thing, with less work (edit: and fewer potential vulns) with gtk and rcstyles.
- chc 9y agoBesides stack familiarity, a big problem people have with GTK is that it feels even less native than Electron.
- tomc1985 9y ago........ huh? GTK uses native controls on Windows and Linux (and I think Mac?) The fact that you have to care about DNS rebinding attacks on a desktop app, where presumably that app does not do anything special with the network or DNS, is all kinds of smelly to me. I wish I could show off some of my work in this area but we took an old JS/HTML/CSS 1.0 stack and did our 2.0 in GTK (with all the fancy graphics and everything), and we are much happier now -- a ten-year-old single-core Celeron system with little RAM runs our stuff great (whereas before we had issues)