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Re:Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI? by zelly on Sunday August 23, 2020 @01:30PM (#24253573)
I seem to remember a lot of Windows programs back in the day were webviews (backed by IE of course) and it was the most horrible unprofessional looking thing, especially when an Alert would pop up which revealed it was just an IE page.

Webviews are okay on mobile though.

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Re:Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI? by dexterous on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:13PM (#24274249)
> I seem to remember a lot of Windows programs back in the day were webviews (backed by IE of course)

Just how far "back in the day are we talking? 'Cause I've see stuff ranging from VB (just VB, no .NET or WinForms) all the way back to MFC based UIs back in _my_ day. :)

I just feel like we should get our timescales calibrated.

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Re:Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI? by rolandog on Sunday August 23, 2020 @05:42PM (#24255511)
> Webviews are okay on mobile though.

IMHO, I guess for 'us' (this community of savvy power-users/developers) they'll be flaky when it comes to logging-in whilst switching apps to generate passwords and 2FA codes...

But to the average user that reuses the same login and password on several websites, it'll probably be good enough.

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