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0 pointszepto4y ago0 comments

>No disrespect, but I think you're either uninformed or misguided on the topic.

No disrespect, but nope. Nothing you have said here contradicts what I said.

Electron is not a browser. It is a toolkit that lets you use web technologies to build standalone apps.

Any app can embed a JavaScript engine or web renderer and cache code from the web, even on iOS. That isn’t a special feature of electron.

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> Any app can embed a JavaScript engine or web renderer and cache code from the web, even on iOS

and we would call that a browser

zeptoOP4y ago

No, we don’t call any app that embeds a web renderer or uses a JavaScript engine ‘a browser’.

Do you have any idea how many apps do this?

I mean yeah, e.g. a lot of recent games use html/js engines for their UI and everyone I know says that the game's UI is a browser

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