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And instead of improving their code so Teams is fast as VS Code, they delegated it to the Edge team to write a new version of Electron called WebView2. Teams'
by foepys 5y ago
And instead of improving their code so Teams is fast as VS Code, they delegated it to the Edge team to write a new version of Electron called WebView2.
Teams' codebase is apparently so bad that it's not fixable and they need to rely on others to rewrite the runtime for them.
For good measure it also subscribes to the media keys on the keyboard. To mute your microphone you might think, but no, to play the dial tone twice when pressing play/pause for your music! Very useful, thank you Microsoft.
- wila 5y agoWebView2 is the MS Edge browser technology that can be instanced as a browser control in your application. [1] It is not electron. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/
- foepys 5y agoSince it's unreleased they might name it differently when releasing but I don't think they will make it open source. Microsoft will most likely use it for themselves.
- Hawxy 5y agoWebView2 has been out for ages, it released with the new edge browser. You can launch what you like in it from your own application.