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Re: Deno Desktop

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Post by porridgeraisin »

sheept wrote: post #5

I was wondering how this integrates with Deno's permission system, which is one of its biggest strengths especially for letting agents run amok on your device. The CLI reference page[0] notes, > The permissions you grant at compile time are baked into the compiled binary: I think it would be nice if this could be surfaced to the user somehow, like letting the user know and decide which permissions they want to give a…

> What deno desktop doesn't have yet

> Runtime permissions for desktop apps (a permission prompt on every filesystem / network access, i.e. Deno's permission system applied to desktop sandboxing).

Re: Deno Desktop

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Post by pjmlp »

utopiah wrote: post #10

Interesting but IMHO as we see on mobile providing WebViews work. Maybe instead of having Electron, Tauri, Electrobun, now Deno desktop but also plenty of alternatives then desktop browsers should provide WebViews on desktop with sandbox and permissions that make those applications usable. The alternatives listed here would just be fallback for a transition period until the WebViews are "good enough".

Webviews have always worked since MSHTML, the issue is being comfy helping Google's market share instead of writing portable Web code.

Re: Deno Desktop

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Post by sureglymop »

Looks actually good!

I wonder if it supports opening invisible browser windows and doing things like intercepting cookies. In my desktop application I leverage a hidden browser window to manage auth state and use it like a proxy for the rest of the application. Might try to port it to deno desktop.

Re: Deno Desktop

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Post by porridgeraisin »

While I've never liked to use deno compared to node and bun, this looks particularly good. The zero config options are nice, all the features seem to be in the place I like, and I'm happy they're not dogmatic about using the system webview and let you ship your own CEF. The state of system webviews on non-windows platforms is horrendous.

Re: Deno Desktop

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Post by bel8 »

I'm happy for competition in this space, specially because Deno can run true TypeScript directly and not just strip types like the current Node implementation.

With that said, this is going to eat a lot of Tauri market. Why would I use Tauri now? The 150mb of additional bundle size is just an extra 1 to 10 seconds of download time in most internet connections and you get a reliable rendering engine.

Re: Deno Desktop

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Post by ahartmetz »

Gigachad wrote: post #17
jorisw wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Consistency is a large factor in any good design, UI design more so.

They have internal consistency. The iOS version looks like the macos version which looks like the web version, etc. This upsets HN users but the rest of the world decided that apps looking like windows built ins doesn't matter.

It's more like developers decided - nobody asked the users.
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