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Re:Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly by krzyk on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:25PM (#14849056)
That's good. I don't see a point in having an app that embeds a browser to show an app. It's like having those silly Android apps that are just a wrapper around a web version of the service.

If I want to use a web version I can do it using a browser of my choosing not the one developers want.

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Re:Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly by charrondev on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:22PM (#14851516)
The browser rendering environment is only half of electron. Electron (and nw.js) provide a node.js / browser hybrid. You can use native node-modules, instead of browser-based workarounds and you have the same filesystem access a native application would have. You also have hooks into platform specific menu/dock/notifications.
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