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I wonder if they've gotten around the horror of Windows distribution for native webview based apps? The usual problem is that you have to either use an antiqua

by api 4y ago

I wonder if they've gotten around the horror of Windows distribution for native webview based apps? The usual problem is that you have to either use an antiquated IE based webview on Windows or install the Microsoft Edge runtime. The latter is painful to bundle and some people don't like it, especially enterprisey IT departments who consider it "another thing" they have to approve instead of just a part of the app since it's a separate OS component.

Octoth0rpe 4y ago
> The usual problem is that you have to either use an antiquated IE based webview on Windows or install the Microsoft Edge runtime. Windows 10/11 both ship with Edge by default, so however big of a problem that is _now_ (probably depends a lot on your target market), it certainly will progressively be a smaller problem over time. Windows 10 was released almost 7 years ago, so while there are undoubtably some corps stuck with windows 8 as their standard, most of the world should've moved on at this point I'd think.
- api 4y ago
  It depends on your target market then. If it's for business/enterprise use you have to ship the entire universe and try to support Windows as far back as possible because companies don't upgrade.
rathboma 4y ago
It is these types of platform questions that make Electron so powerful from the developer perspective. In building Beekeeper Studio I already have a lot of OS-specific problems to debug, having to also debug the webview just makes it 100x harder.
- api 4y ago
  Electron is one of those things that's both terrible and awesome at the same time. It's great for developers but it's a RAM hog, a CPU hog, a bandwidth hog (in downloads), and a disk hog. But don't blame Electron. Blame OS vendors and their refusal to standardize anything when it comes to app distribution.

4 ms·

I wonder if they've gotten around the horror of Windows distribution for native webview based apps? The usual problem is that you have to either use an antiqua

by api 4y ago

Octoth0rpe 4y ago
> The usual problem is that you have to either use an antiquated IE based webview on Windows or install the Microsoft Edge runtime. Windows 10/11 both ship with Edge by default, so however big of a problem that is _now_ (probably depends a lot on your target market), it certainly will progressively be a smaller problem over time. Windows 10 was released almost 7 years ago, so while there are undoubtably some corps stuck with windows 8 as their standard, most of the world should've moved on at this point I'd think.
- api 4y ago
  It depends on your target market then. If it's for business/enterprise use you have to ship the entire universe and try to support Windows as far back as possible because companies don't upgrade.
rathboma 4y ago
It is these types of platform questions that make Electron so powerful from the developer perspective. In building Beekeeper Studio I already have a lot of OS-specific problems to debug, having to also debug the webview just makes it 100x harder.
- api 4y ago
  Electron is one of those things that's both terrible and awesome at the same time. It's great for developers but it's a RAM hog, a CPU hog, a bandwidth hog (in downloads), and a disk hog. But don't blame Electron. Blame OS vendors and their refusal to standardize anything when it comes to app distribution.