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Slack's desktop client is really just a wrapper around a web browser.
by ohitsdom 12y ago
Slack's desktop client is really just a wrapper around a web browser.
- joeyspn 12y agoElectron, specifically... https://github.com/atom/electron/ https://github.com/atom/electron/
- captn3m0 12y agoInteresting. I haven't used it because they don't support Linux yet. (EDIT: I mean Slack, not electron)
- joeyspn 12y agoYou can build a wrapper (using a webview) of slack web with nw.js or electron... You'll get pretty much the same functionalities, including desktop notifications for the chats.
- s_dev 12y agoSpotify and Skype come to mind as well.
- ponyous 12y agoIs Skype considered start up?
- jimbobob 12y agoSpotify uses Chromium Embedded Framework to serve a lot of UI elements via HTML/CSS/JavaScript[0]. Anecdotally, there seem to be a number of desktop apps moving in this direction. [0] http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-technology-behind-the-Spotify-desktop-app http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-technology-behind-the-Spoti...
- lewisl9029 12y agoIt's still a desktop application. Just built with web technologies vs natively compiled binaries, which is an implementation detail that shouldn't matter to the end user, in my opinion.