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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by plorkyeran on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:45PM (#21488604)
Electron could in theory use WebKit as well, and the main reason it doesn't is because Google decided to fork WebKit.
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Re:Apple has made it difficult to use web-based technology o... by st3fan on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:18PM (#21489113)
I don’t think it actually can because WebKit on macOS has been replaced by WKWebView which has a severely limited API surface that without doubt is way too shallow for Electron.
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