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> we’re building our desktop app around the OS-provided rendering engines I'm skeptical that this will give them enough control to fully customize all browser
by mwcampbell 5y ago
> we’re building our desktop app around the OS-provided rendering engines
I'm skeptical that this will give them enough control to fully customize all browser behavior. The platform-provided browser engine APIs (WebKit, the new WebView2 on Windows) are designed for simple HTML embedding scenarios, not a full web browser. I struggled with this when developing a browser based on the IE engine several years ago. I think Electron would be a better bet. Does anyone disagree
- heresaPizza 5y agoI 1000% percent disagree. Firstly as a user I see no point in this browser at all. They should have partnered with Mozilla to stick to their commitment to privacy and to their effort to support open source projects. Imho they don’t aim to customize the UX that much. They’ll build something like their mobile browser and push for their search engine, mail protection and whatever they’ll try to sell in the future. And we should just not trust them. So many people use browsers as they are (which I find impossible nowadays with all the ads and popups) and reading that DuckDuckGo magically protected them will be enough for them. Instead of Electron they could have just used Chromium but that is ethically terrible and an un useful effort for them (given what I said about their intentions).