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They've been using webview components since 1997.
by vel0city 1y ago
They've been using webview components since 1997.
- dspillett 1y agoSlapping a webview component into a native app is a lot less heavy than a full election app. A lot heavier than not at all, of course, and webview felt heavy handed back then like election for OS components feels now, I feel a lesson has not been learned…
- vel0city 1y agoEither way they're shipping an entire browser stack, and back in 1997 it was even heavier in comparison to available compute. But rose colored glasses two US to ignore that.
- dspillett 1y agoIIRC the one set of browser parts was shared around between active desktop and other OS uses, where anything Electron based has its own instance of both chromium and node.