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Re:Electron considered harmful by detaro on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:35PM (#13031520)
I really don't want APIs to freely access the filesystem, other processes etc in my browser. And my applications to work offline.

I haven't seen many examples of people using Electron to make applications that really should be web apps instead, but more for packaging web apps with native enhancements. Often I'd prefer a "proper" native app, pushing even more features in the browser IHMO is not the answer.

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Re:Electron considered harmful by tscs37 on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:47PM (#13031596)
>I really don't want APIs to freely access the filesystem, other processes etc in my browser. And my applications to work offline.

Ctrl+S -> Save whole webpage

alternatively get the Webpages source code.

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