My recollection of using the old windows HTML control was that it was very useful outside of being a basic content view - obviously there was subsequent additio

My recollection of using the old windows HTML control was that it was very useful outside of being a basic content view - obviously there was subsequent additions to the web that made some functionality in webkit available, but the WebView controls in my extremely limited experience seemed a much better fit for minor content views in apps. Of course that's all kind of moot because the important point is that there's a large different between a native app that uses a webview (or the windows/linux equivalent) to display some content, and a cut down browser view trying to act like a native application. Admittedly a number of the bugs in electron apps are a byproduct of their use of chromium which is very much a Mac-second engine and the actual API requires host apps to do much more work for system integration, which is a valid choice: it gives the host app much more flexibility in handling things. The down side is there are some things that apps shouldn't be trying to reimplement themselves.