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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by saagarjha on Monday October 30, 2017 @02:20PM (#15587523)
Messages.app does all of those and uses a tenth of the RAM.
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by mantas on Monday October 30, 2017 @02:30PM (#15587623)
There're IRC clients that do half of that (unless IRC got audio and video support at some point) using < 1% of RAM or CPU...
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by smashingfiasco on Monday October 30, 2017 @05:39PM (#15589147)
Interestingly, Messages.app on macOS actually is a webview (well, the chat log portion of the window).
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by xwvvvvwx on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:20PM (#15589490)
do you have a source?
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by saagarjha on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:33PM (#15589574)
A quick glance at the view hierarchy (Accessibility Inspector.app can do this) shows that the chat view is just a web view.
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by xwvvvvwx on Monday October 30, 2017 @06:35PM (#15589591)
Interesting! Thanks :)
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by hatsix on Monday October 30, 2017 @02:39PM (#15587714)
Yeah, but it doesn't run on my PC, or my phone, or in a browser.
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by saagarjha on Monday October 30, 2017 @02:49PM (#15587800)
I don't need it to run in a browser or PC, and it works on my phone since I have an iPhone. You needs may vary, in which case you might just stick to SMS which is cross-platform and lightweight.
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by FanaHOVA on Monday October 30, 2017 @05:50PM (#15589236)
You can control people's screens through Messages? And you can write simple webhooks and bots with a few lines of Ruby? Please send me some links, I'd love to do that.
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by jsjohnst on Monday October 30, 2017 @07:21PM (#15589875)
Screen sharing w/ control: https://support.apple.com/guide/messages/screen-sharing-icht...

As to web hooks and bots, if you really think that necessitates having it be a bloated Electron app, I don't know what to say.

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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by inferiorhuman on Monday October 30, 2017 @10:33PM (#15590731)
AppleScript is still a thing, right?
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Re:Migrating Slack's Desktop App to BrowserView by jsjohnst on Monday October 30, 2017 @11:01PM (#15590824)
Yeah, it is, but I definitely wouldn't call it a webhook / bot alternative. Having used AS with Messages.app before, it definitely isn't very useful for anything but very basic stuff.
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