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Re:Going native by Qwertious on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:33AM (#13947110)
By that logic, if I fork chromium and make a custom version of it that's hard-coded to start up HN in the first tab, then I've made a native HN app.
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Re:Going native by MadcapJake on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:21AM (#13948143)
No, you've "made" a native browser that opens HN in the first tab.
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Re:Going native by radisb on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:36AM (#13948206)
By that logic Postman native is a native browser hardcoded to open only one tab and load Postman's javascript code upon start-up
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Re:Going native by MadcapJake on Friday March 24, 2017 @10:27AM (#13949066)
Basically this is true but the browser (Electron) is designed to be single-purpose (your app) and has pathways to the filesystem that you can't get in a web browser.

Also, it is treated as an application by the OS rather than a Chrome window (and all the benefits that come with that shift).

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Re:Going native by Antrikshy on Saturday March 25, 2017 @06:46PM (#13957920)
But you won't have access to the file system unless you further modify it.
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