Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust

Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by 908B64B197 on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:20PM (#26196126)

I have to post it here because it's on top: On Windows the new WebView is Chromium.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview...

Old one is, of course, kept for compatibility reasons.

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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by the_duke on Friday February 19, 2021 @01:23PM (#26196162)

Yes, but it is not installed by default. You have to install it separately, at least for now,which makes things a lot more complicated if you want your app to rely on it.

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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by oldmanhorton on Friday February 19, 2021 @06:21PM (#26199404)

Edge is pushed to the vast majority of PCs, and on those machines, I believe it provides a system-level webview2 component. You can choose to package your own webview2 into your app if you want the extra compatability that offers at expense of app size and ram usage

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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by encom on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:25PM (#26198823)

I'm moderately certain that Chromium is installed by default on new installs of Windows now.

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Re:Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust by Klonoar on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:49AM (#26202182)

WebView2 does not use that Chromium, however.

It's slightly absurd, and you should direct the "WTF?" to Microsoft for this.

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