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Fraterkes ◴[] No.43545366[source]
A while ago I saw someone mention that Tauri would soon also just include Chromium, because in practice using a native webview loses a lot of the ostensible portability of a browser-in-a-desktop app (they claimed native webviews can differ a lot between OS's). Maybe that was overly pessimistic
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mentalgear ◴[] No.43545419[source]
> because in practice using a native webview loses a lot of the ostensible portability of a browser-in-a-desktop app (they claimed native webviews can differ a lot between OS's)

OS Webview fragmentation was my concern from the beginning, but got pretty much shushed away by tauri proponents. Funny how after years they also came to the same conclusion that a webview running on win8 and one on linux do not necessarily render/behave the same, and the amount of bugfixes/normalisation one would have to include is just to vast.

Still it might make sense if you exactly know the OS distribution of your user base.

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madeofpalk ◴[] No.43545781[source]
Is there something specific to the browser-in-a-desktop app domain that's different from normal frontend web development, where you have to support a variety of different browsers? How is it any different for Tauri?
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1. pornel ◴[] No.43546301[source]
On Linux you get WebKitGTK, which is more of a gamble than browser versions of Chromium or Gecko.