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> Tauri wants to be less bloated, and therefore removes Chromium. Which makes it... not so cross-platform, apparently. It's certainly cross-platform. Name a cu
by WorldMaker 3y ago
> Tauri wants to be less bloated, and therefore removes Chromium. Which makes it... not so cross-platform, apparently.
It's certainly cross-platform. Name a current OS that doesn't have one WebKit-forked webview or another available at all times. If you don't like Apple's insistence on only baseline WebKit out of the box, there's Microsoft's WebView2 which ships a known Chromium to every major desktop OS.
But really, if you are a web developer complaining about the differences between WebKit and Chromium, you may be spoiled. If you are a web developer complaining that you can't package a specific Chromium version (which is the real Electron benefit, not just that it packages its own Chromium but that every Electron app can pick and choose down to the exact Chromium version they want to ship), you've gone beyond spoiled to basically distrusting how the web platform is supposed to work.
(That's before you get to the other monoculture assumptions that no modern OS is instead shipping something like Firefox as the system default webview in 2023. It's all one tiny family tree with WebKit as the trunk.)