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I've been out of the OSX-space for a while. Are there a lot of apps using web views for their GUI? The only ones I can think of are Colloquy and Adium. Even the

by pyre 14y ago

I've been out of the OSX-space for a while. Are there a lot of apps using web views for their GUI? The only ones I can think of are Colloquy and Adium. Even then, they don't do the whole GUI as a web view, just the parts of the display that are theme-able.

ori_b 14y ago
> Are there a lot of apps using web views for their GUI? No. [Edit: I'm talking about apps that use webviews make a native-looking app. Web apps don't qualify.]
- mseepgood 14y ago
  All the apps developed for the web outnumber the apps in the app store.
  - pyre 14y ago
    Maybe I should have specified WebView rather than web view. IIRC, a WebView is a ready-to-go embed-able WebKit widget in the toolkit of OSX GUI developers. Colloquy represents the chatroom text as a stream of XML, which it uses XSLT themes to translate into HTML, which is displayed in a WebView. I'm sure Adium does something similar. "Using HTML/CSS/JS as the new GUI medium" doesn't limit itself to just running stuff in a traditional browser. I was under the assumption that we were talking about making HTML/CSS/JS the new GUI layer, even for native apps.