Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps

Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by space_ghost on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:08AM (#26376954)

The impact could reduced if a single Electron runtime is shared across apps. Imagine the various HTML5 mobile phone environments, like Palm's webOS, but in a desktop setting.

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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by aserafini on Sunday March 07, 2021 @01:00PM (#26378030)

Yes, we could have tabs to switch between different applications running on that shared runtime.

And a universal way of accessing any published application for that runtime through some kind of address bar.

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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by afavour on Sunday March 07, 2021 @02:15PM (#26378785)

That's essentially what a Progressive Web App is.

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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by zelon88 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:19AM (#26377078)

Since electron is basically a headless browser, you would be opening up any app with an XSS vulnerability to any other app running in the runtime.

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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by scaladev on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:21AM (#26377106)

Headless? It even has the same debug console as the ordinary Chromium.

Basically the only thing it misses is the URL bar and navigation buttons. It's just a browser with some OS integration slapped on the side.

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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by chasd00 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @11:28AM (#26377180)

True, I’ve always thought of electron as phonegap/Cordova for desktops.

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Re:Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop ... by oshanz on Sunday March 07, 2021 @01:55PM (#26378576)

So it needs a isolation like firefox containers

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