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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
(Gets off eschwartz's lawn)
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This despite that I'm one of the younger people around here.
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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
You're not wrong, though. The proliferation of Chromium everywhere is... not good.
I almost wish they'd invent SiFoIP so I could remotely slap whoever thought electron was a good idea in the face. Repeatedly.
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If you ever get around to inventing this yourself, I would appreciate it.
More generally, browsers just kind of suck. They're ingenious, finely crafted artisanal towers of bad ideas, and people invent more bad ideas because it sounds cool rather than because it's actually useful. Interesting reading:
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/R...ess-scope.html
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HTML in desktop apps doesn't have to be bad. Qt has QTextBrowser is "rich text" and turns HTML files into GUI displays for building your program. But it doesn't need a browser to do it, and by design it has only limited HTML support in order to simplify things. You can do amazing things with it.
calibre uses it for some things that formerly ran in webkit, because webengine cannot be used at all unless it's loaded at application startup, and loading it at application startup is SLOOOOOOOW so calibre only uses it when there's no other choice, in worker processes.