> Popular apps such as Instagram and Facebook don’t just use vanilla webviews. They use customized ones, with their own quirks. This might be understandable, b

> Popular apps such as Instagram and Facebook don’t just use vanilla webviews. They use customized ones, with their own quirks. This might be understandable, but also feels a bit odd. Why couldn't they just use what the system already providers, without bloating everything with their own implementation? Then again, one could probably ask the same about desktop software that is commonly based on Electron, but in theory might as well be run through Firefox with some additional capabilities that locally running Electron apps would otherwise get. Then again, we kind of had PWAs on the desktop, which have been retired now as well: https://9to5google.com/2021/01/27/firefox-discontinues-work-pwa-desktop/ https://9to5google.com/2021/01/27/firefox-discontinues-work-...