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Blender 4.3

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239 points antome | 4 comments | 20 Nov 24 04:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.807s | source
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wolframhempel ◴[20 Nov 24 07:33 UTC] No.42191568[source]▶
Blender, in my view, is one of the best arguments to develop native desktop applications over web view wrappers like Electron. Everything is responsive and instant, you can open new 3D view windows by just sliding them open at 60 frames a second, performance is stable even with multiple windows open and the download size is a reasonable 334MB.
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aurareturn ◴[20 Nov 24 08:47 UTC] No.42191947[source]▶
>Blender, in my view, is one of the best arguments to develop native desktop applications over web view wrappers like Electron.

Different class of products.

For Electron apps, often it's the choice of having a desktop app or not having one at all.

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daemin ◴[20 Nov 24 10:56 UTC] No.42192704[source]▶
I would prefer they do not make an electron app and just have people use the web-app contained in a browser like it was meant to be.
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aurareturn ◴[20 Nov 24 11:23 UTC] No.42192843[source]▶
So don't download the desktop electron app? What's the problem?
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1. daemin ◴[20 Nov 24 11:38 UTC] No.42192924[source]▶
Web versions don't work with all browsers, they also want you to use the app, and heavily promote using the app, even though the app is just a web page in a browser that's not your browser.

If they want you to use an installed app then they should just build a native app that can be installed.

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2. zztop44 ◴[20 Nov 24 11:55 UTC] No.42193038[source]▶
But what’s stopping you just using the web page (in a browser that it works with)? Yes, they want you to use the app, but you can still do what you want.
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3. daemin ◴[20 Nov 24 12:34 UTC] No.42193370[source]▶
I have done that in the past, though it was more that certain features were just broken in a browser rather than the whole website not working.

If I needed to run another entire browser just for this website I wouldn't bother.

4. swiftcoder ◴[20 Nov 24 13:33 UTC] No.42193795[source]▶
There is usually critical missing functionality from the web version (mostly around native filesystem access). Also, most sites that offer an Electron app paster annoying banners advertising this fact across their web version...