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> Web applications are applications running in a Web browser And Electron embeds an instance of Chromium, to provide a webview for the 'application' interface.
by stephenr 9y 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 9y agoIt'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.