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Microsoft Edge WebView2

• xen2xen1 5y ago
  So, this is Electron by another name?
  • exclipy 5y ago
    It's a shared OS-managed webview, so applications don't need to ship the whole browser engine. This fixes the main complaint about Electron.
    • deleted 5y ago
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    • xen2xen1 5y ago
      But it requires Edge already installed? I suppose Edge is mutli-OS now.
      • xen2xen1 5y ago
        Apparently not.
• vfclists 5y ago
  Is it available for Linux?
  • riidom 5y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28337343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28337343
• brundolf 5y ago
  This still has to be embedded inside a native Windows app though, right? I'm betting that one day desktop OSes will agree on a standard for shipping a raw web app directly (manifest format, etc), that can be spun up and run in the local webview without all the ceremony of a wrapper app
  • arthurcolle 5y ago
    Maybe Deno could end up enabling this. I heard/remember seeing that there is some initial work to support building UIs using Deno which presumably would have a lot of overlap with a traditional browser rendering engine. One of the explicit goals of these projects is to have a truly cross-platform alternative to Electron, from what I vaguely remember reading.
  • underwater 5y ago
    That's a PWA (Progressive Web App). It exists but support is spotty on most platforms and non-existent on iOS.
    • brundolf 5y ago
      I know about PWAs; those don't have all the capabilities of an Electron app (being distributable as a file/archive, file system access, and many other things)