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Re:Script Kit: cross-platform, scriptable, automatic shortcu... by sigmonsays on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:43PM (#34458660)
I agree. web browsers need to become a service in the OS that can securely be shared. Electron apps are crap until that happens.
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Re:Script Kit: cross-platform, scriptable, automatic shortcu... by tomComb on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:19PM (#34459240)
They already are on android, iOS, and windows.
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Re:Script Kit: cross-platform, scriptable, automatic shortcu... by dceddia on Friday January 20, 2023 @07:46PM (#34462471)
They already are – there's a system webview on Windows and macOS. There are a few "Electron alternatives" that use the system webview instead of bundling a copy of Chromium. Tauri [0] is one of them, built around Rust, and it's pretty great. I built a video editor with it.

The usual complaint against this is that you have to support multiple browsers (Edge/Chromium on Windows, Safari on Mac).

0: https://tauri.app

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Re:Script Kit: cross-platform, scriptable, automatic shortcu... by franga2000 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @04:16AM (#34465085)
Are those services or just shared libraries? I would imagine, although I'm not sure this is the case, that 50 tabs in a browser consume fewer resources than 50 individual WebViews.
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