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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by the_duke on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:01PM (#26195890)
> Well Windows is basically Chrome

As far as I know that's not accurate and the default webview on Windows is still the old Edge based one, not Chromium.

The plans here are somewhat unknown I think, but right now you have to force the user to download and install (or bundle an installer) for WebView2 or Edge beta channel if you don't want to support old Edge.

Gtk-webkit is also quite different from Safari, you can't assume they are just the same.

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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by FuriouslyAdrift on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:16PM (#26196074)
The latest WebView2 is based on Edge Chromium AFAIK. https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview...
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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by unnouinceput on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:07PM (#26195964)
Starting from 20h2 version Edge is based on Chromium. And I remember when that rolled out plenty of people were irked by Microsoft simply automatically installing it (the new Edge Canary) without asking for permission.
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