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Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web... by CyberDildonics on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @01:42AM (#19150951)
Doesn't anyone who makes a webpage need to test it in different browsers?
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Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web... by Klonoar on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:12PM (#19156493)
This is a thing that's really specific to web-design, though. People writing desktop apps want it to "just work", which is why Electron is a godsend (in this regard).
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Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web... by CyberDildonics on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:39PM (#19163886)
Why do people not think that cross platform GUIs don't 'just work'? The effort to get something that already works to another platform really isn't much.

Also electron doesn't 'just work'. A simple program being 300MB with a laggy sluggish interface is not 'just working'.

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