You really think the browser sandbox limits what the website can do with the data on their servers?
> This makes me think you don't actually know what electron is.
Do you think electron is a web browser?
I think it’s a toolkit that let’s you use JavaScript, HTML and CSS to build a standalone app.
Web apps aren’t defined by the programming language they use. They are defined by the fact that they run on the web - I.e. in a browser talking to web servers.
The whole process model for electron is almost identical to the process model for WebExtensions (a single process manages renderer processes, which are instances of browser window objects.).
I don't recommend this, but I've done it and it works - your whole electron app can be a main process that literally caches the resources from your site, and then displays them in a renderer view.
> You really think the browser sandbox limits what the website can do with the data on their servers?
And that is different than the mobile app store, how, exactly?
Data you provide to a company is theirs to do with as they please - whether it was ingested through a Iphone app or a website makes absolutely zero difference.
The difference between App Store apps and web apps is that many App Store apps work on local files or files stored in iCloud that are never ingested by the company that provided the app.
