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I think this is not correct. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application, Web applications are appl

by wsy 8y ago

I think this is not correct. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application, Web applications are applications running in a Web browser. The term was introduced to distinguish Web _apps_ from Web _pages_, not to distinguish _Web_ apps from _native_ apps.

stephenr 8y ago
> Web applications are applications running in a Web browser And Electron embeds an instance of Chromium, to provide a webview for the 'application' interface. How is that not a web app? It's written in HTML, CSS and JS, it runs inside a browser. Just because the user can't choose the browser doesn't mean shit. Users couldn't choose the browser to run a lot of Microsoft-stack Web Apps in the early 2000's either, because they only worked in MSIE.
- wsy 8y ago
  It's not a Web browser because you can't browse the Web with it. In my view, Electron does not embed a browser, it does embed a HTML/CSS/JS renderer.