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WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core

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Re: WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core

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Post by erlend_sh »

throwGuardian wrote: post #7

Alternatives: 1. Webview: https://github.com/zserge/webview 2. Lorca (Chrome): https://github.com/zserge/lorca 3. Carlo (js/Chrome): https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo

zserge’s webview has been adopted by a bunch of maintainers who made Rust bindings for it. They have forked webview to continue maintaining it, and are now gradually rewriting it in Rust.

https://github.com/Boscop/web-view

Made on top of that is Tauri, a cross-platform webview-based app just like WebWindow. The key differentiator being that they are actually committed to continuous development as they’re trying to get established as an open source company.

https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

Re: WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core

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Post by Phillips126 »

pjmlp wrote: post #46
slowenough wrote: post #20

This is very exciting, thanks for creating this! I've been hoping for a way to build native apps via web technologies without the bloat. Please let this be it. .NET is such a good runtime.

Web is only native on browser OSes.

Which on Windows is basically IE11 (not an environment I really want to develop in).

Re: WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core

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Post by pjmlp »

Phillips126 wrote: post #52
pjmlp wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Web is only native on browser OSes.

Which on Windows is basically IE11 (not an environment I really want to develop in).

Which isn't what I said, rather OSes that jungle browsers as the only userspace processes available, e.g. FireOS, ChromeOS, KaiOS ....

As for IE11, I don't know of any Window 10 user that still uses it instead of Edge.

Re: WebWindow, a cross-platform webview library for .NET Core

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Post by Phillips126 »

pjmlp wrote: post #53
Phillips126 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which on Windows is basically IE11 (not an environment I really want to develop in).

Which isn't what I said, rather OSes that jungle browsers as the only userspace processes available, e.g. FireOS, ChromeOS, KaiOS .... As for IE11, I don't know of any Window 10 user that still uses it instead of Edge.

Apologies, I meant to state that Windows WebView uses MSHTML which is IE10/11. I see in BETA right now is a Win32 API for WebView2 which uses Edge(Chromium)[0]. Not sure if you edited your comment for clarification or if I replied to the wrong post as my initial comment no longer makes sense.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/hosting/webv...

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