W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group

Re:W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group by Shadonototra on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @06:50AM (#31338138)

"WebView" in software should be preferred over electron, but why it's not the case today?

Because it is bloated, more complicated, and require an insane amount of preparation to get started in a cross-platform fashion, specially for windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/get...

Then you understand why nobody wants to deal with that stuff and choose lowest common denominator (electron)

Just look at what you have to do to get started with WebView2 on windows

Hopefully this community group will lead to a better story for webviews in desktop software

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Re:W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group by pjmlp on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @07:01AM (#31338203)

Because many developers are lazy and rather hardcode their ways into a specific browser instead of Web standards, which WebViews also require to pay attention to.

In 2000 we were already delivering software using Webviews like MSHTML or KHTML.

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