W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group

Re:W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group by kevingadd on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @04:55AM (#31337436)

I wonder if this will actually happen, since most webviews are closed source and the work of big corporations? Maybe people like the Electron maintainers can get involved.

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Re:W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group by binarynate on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @02:26PM (#31343891)

Almost all of the major WebView implementations I can think of are open source:

• WKWebView (iOS, macOS): https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/main/Source/WebKit/UIP...

• Android WebView: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...

• Mozilla GeckoView: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/mobile/andr...

• Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF): https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/src/master/

The main ones that aren't open source are the Windows WebView and WebView2 components.

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Re:W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group by niklasmerz on Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:15AM (#31351220)

WKWebView is open source but apple can always decide to change APIs and break apps. Happened before with their tracking prevention.

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Re:W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group by meragrin_ on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @08:25AM (#31338901)

I would imagine many of the controlling maintainers are GitHub/Microsoft employees. GitHub created it. Microsoft owns GitHub and has important software built upon Electron.

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Re:W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group by deepstack on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @05:14AM (#31337539)

sounds more like for maintainers from tauri. deno/rust/websymboly capacitorjs PWA group seems got the stuff right in this webview directions than monolitic electron. If we must go the chrome route, then NWJS would also be more preferred than Electron.

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