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> It could bypass HTML, CSS, and JS entirely and just run as if it were a desktop application. Not quite, because in order to display anything to the user, it
by eminence32 4y ago
> It could bypass HTML, CSS, and JS entirely and just run as if it were a desktop application.
Not quite, because in order to display anything to the user, it still has to use HTML/CSS/JS
- krapp 4y ago>Not quite, because in order to display anything to the user, it still has to use HTML/CSS/JS Webassembly was designed to be usable outside of the browser, and multiple native runtimes already exist for it. It doesn't require the web stack, that just happens to be the most convenient way to use it at the moment.
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- traverseda 4y agoOr canvas elements.
- EMM_386 4y agoMy thought exactly, seeing how Flutter has an output for the web that renders to canvas, bypassing everything entirely. Then what do we have? A C# desktop application running under WASM inside a browser with a custom UI rendered to a <canvas> element? Is that where this is going?
- Kuinox 4y agoFor now C# has Blazor that run .NET in the browser with WASM, that do the same thing that any JS frontend framework do. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...