Re:A lighter V8
by t0astbread on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:51AM
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This looks interesting but the code samples look like they include non-standard features (if I'm not mistaken).
Is this compatible out of the box with (most) modern web apps? Because that's the real value of Electron.
> Is this compatible out of the box with (most) modern web apps? Because that's the real value of Electron.
No it's not. It uses its own JS-like scripting language, and custom CSS 3 support.
A couple of months ago the author suggested on Reddit he might start working on an Electron alternative that used Node + Sciter.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a8vkzm/scitern...
Interesting. What's the name of the engine, and is it open source?
5MB!
Anyone knows how is the performance?
> Script
> (tbd)
Re:A lighter V8
by JasonFruit on Friday September 13, 2019 @08:41AM
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It has scripting available in a JavaScript-like language. I'm not able to tell yet how mature it is as I've only done a brief test.
https://sciter.com/
It allows you to make desktop apps with HTML/CSS, but it has its own custom engine that doesn't support all the quirks the web does.