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nklayman

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    Comment #27158010

    Yeah, you can use wasm on all platforms.

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    Comment #27157804

    A ton of time and resources have been put into making web apps work across multiple rendering engines. These days, it can be difficult to have something break on one platform if yo…

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    Comment #27157737

    Yes, much smaller install size and memory footprint. We have a comparison table on our readme: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri#comparison-between-tauri...

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    Comment #27157556

    Assuming you meant Deno, we used Node for the CLI because most web devs already have npm installed. We want the getting started process to be as simple as possible. Our Node CLI is…

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    Comment #27157461

    If you scroll down to the roadmap, you can see that system trays are supported. We don't yet support native context menus, but that would be a relatively simple addition. Our GitHu…

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    Comment #27157210

    Having the getting started button at the end is a good idea I think, we'll look into that. We say "web frontend" because that's as descriptive as we can be really. We support any w…

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    Comment #26198806

    It's actually inspired by the star system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Tauri_star ).

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    Comment #26198772

    The demo app has very basic styling, it isn't designed to be pretty. Since a Webview with HTML/CSS/JS is used for the GUI, you can style your app however you want.

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    Comment #26198719

    Tauri's Bundler will automatically take care of shipping the Webview2 runtime, so there won't be any extra work required of you.

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    Comment #26198693

    We didn't take over control, rather we helped setup an independent org around webview and other related repos. At the time, the original author of webview expressed plans to work o…

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    Comment #26196658

    Servo is quite large and extremely difficult to build from source. We've tried to make it work with Tauri but decided it's not worth it, at least for now.