Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web...
by zamalek on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:19PM
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> That's why DeskGap uses EdgeHTML on Windows
Strangely, that would likely make it most conformant on Windows. I can't imagine that KHTML is up to date in terms of specifications (but I could easily be completely wrong about that) and Apple/Safari is taking tips from Microsoft during their IE days.
It would seem that the platform differences would be quite large, but at least the JS engine would be consistent.
Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web...
by Klonoar on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:04PM
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Mmmhmm. That's cool, although not original.
As I noted in an above comment...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18763449
Projects like DeskGap make this out to be a simpler problem than it actually is. ;P
That's why DeskGap uses EdgeHTML on Windows. With toolchains such as webpack and babel, building an app that runs on WebKit and EdgeHTML (which is going to be replaced by Chromium[0]) can't be that hard.
> Nobody wants to wait for a vendor to update their implementation when Chrome has the feature available almost immediately.
DeskGap doesn't mean to be a complete replacement for Electron. But after a glance of Electron Apps[1], I suppose many simple apps do not require start-of-art features.
[0] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...
[1] https://electronjs.org/apps