Comment by utopiah

13 hours ago

Interesting but IMHO as we see on mobile providing WebViews work. Maybe instead of having Electron, Tauri, Electrobun, now Deno desktop but also plenty of alternatives then desktop browsers should provide WebViews on desktop with sandbox and permissions that make those applications usable. The alternatives listed here would just be fallback for a transition period until the WebViews are "good enough".

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pjmlp  13 hours ago

Webviews have always worked since MSHTML, the issue is being comfy helping Google's market share instead of writing portable Web code.

  • utopiah  13 hours ago

    That's a whole can of worms, Micro$lop entangling its own browser with its OS, getting a (gentle) slap on the hand for its abuse of monopoly position for it, having to remove it claiming it's "impossible", etc.

andyferris  13 hours ago

Is it not a web view? With nodejs capabilities from the “backend” half of the app for normal desktop app filesystem access etc?

  • utopiah  13 hours ago

    If a Web View is not provided by a browser then it's an already installed browser then it's as they say "web rendering engine" that they ship along.

    I'm trying to argue that it should already be available via Firefox, Chromium, etc on desktop.

    • koolala  11 hours ago

      Firefox doesn't release a webview engine but if they did I wonder if Linux distros would use it.