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I wonder if this will actually happen, since most webviews are closed source and the work of big corporations? Maybe people like the Electron maintainers can ge

I wonder if this will actually happen, since most webviews are closed source and the work of big corporations? Maybe people like the Electron maintainers can get involved.

meragrin_ 4y ago
I would imagine many of the controlling maintainers are GitHub/Microsoft employees. GitHub created it. Microsoft owns GitHub and has important software built upon Electron.
binarynate 4y ago
Almost all of the major WebView implementations I can think of are open source: • WKWebView (iOS, macOS): https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/main/Source/WebKit/UIProcess/API/Cocoa/WKWebView.mm https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/main/Source/WebKit/UIP... • Android WebView: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/a5408e6/core/java/android/webkit/WebView.java https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/... • Mozilla GeckoView: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/mobile/android/geckoview https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/mobile/andr... • Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF): https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/src/master/ https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/src/master/ The main ones that aren't open source are the Windows WebView and WebView2 components.
- niklasmerz 4y ago
  WKWebView is open source but apple can always decide to change APIs and break apps. Happened before with their tracking prevention.
deepstack 4y ago
sounds more like for maintainers from tauri. deno/rust/websymboly capacitorjs PWA group seems got the stuff right in this webview directions than monolitic electron. If we must go the chrome route, then NWJS would also be more preferred than Electron.