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Re:Electron v5.0 Timeline by icelancer on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @02:35AM (#19083591)
Everyone likes this idea until the HTML, CSS, and JS are given the ability to change application menus and access the file system. Then oh no, we can't have that.
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Re:Electron v5.0 Timeline by aserafini on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:18AM (#19083719)
Instead we are encouraging users to download arbitrary binaries bundled with a browser that can be controlled and updated remotely. It’s not clear to me this is any safer.
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Re:Electron v5.0 Timeline by ninkendo on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @03:15AM (#19083711)
Surely you can fix that without having physically separate copies of the underlying chromium engine?

edit: I realize now this is a joke thread... whoosh.

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Re:Electron v5.0 Timeline by krapp on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @07:14AM (#19084590)
It's funny because it's not entirely a joke.
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