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Not related to "native UI" vs browser, but still an important distinction: Unlike Electron, Webview does not embed a browser, but uses the platform-native brow
by the_duke 6y ago
Not related to "native UI" vs browser, but still an important distinction:
Unlike Electron, Webview does not embed a browser, but uses the platform-native browser engine. That's Cocoa/WebKit on Mac OS and Edge on Windows. Since Linux doesn't have a one, gtk-webkit is used there.
This allows for very small binaries, but necessitates dealing with the platform incompatibilities.
- eivarv 6y agoIt's an important distinction, for sure – but it only addresses one (of the many) tradeoffs made in such a decision.