Re:Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit Trainwreck (2016)
by holy_city on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:34PM
(#19750505)
webview kind of satisfies 1 + 2.1 + 3.1 today.
Same idea as Electron but it wraps the OS webview instead of Chromium (Cocoa/Webkit, gtk-webkit2, MSHTML, and soon EdgeHTML). The minimal test app is 255kb in size, the static lib is just 48kb (MacOS).
And I get, "but Safari/IE/whatever are still different platforms!" I'd argue that the edge cases between browser rendering of HTML + CSS + JS is much better to deal with than the architectural and language differences between the native GUI APIs on each platform. As long as you're not pulling in an obscene amount of JS dependencies, webview is very sane.
Same idea as Electron but it wraps the OS webview instead of Chromium (Cocoa/Webkit, gtk-webkit2, MSHTML, and soon EdgeHTML). The minimal test app is 255kb in size, the static lib is just 48kb (MacOS).
https://github.com/zserge/webview
And I get, "but Safari/IE/whatever are still different platforms!" I'd argue that the edge cases between browser rendering of HTML + CSS + JS is much better to deal with than the architectural and language differences between the native GUI APIs on each platform. As long as you're not pulling in an obscene amount of JS dependencies, webview is very sane.