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tiborsaas
on Dec 26, 2018
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WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
If you throw out cross platform support it's hard to call it an alternative :)
nicoburns
on Dec 26, 2018
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Yeah, at that point the most obvious alternative is Cocoa!
saagarjha
on Dec 26, 2018
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It’s pretty cross-platform, if you swap out “WKWebView” with “your platform’s native web view”.
rasengan
on Dec 26, 2018
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Just use gtk WebKit or qt WebKit and you’re good to go.
For the record, WebKit originated from KDE[1].
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit
amyjess
on Dec 26, 2018
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Should be QtWebEngine now, as QtWebKit is deprecated.
sime2009
on Dec 26, 2018
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QtWebEngine embeds Chromium as its web engine, which means it is going to have the same performance and disk size costs as Electron. The circle is now complete and you might as well just use Electron.
abrowne
on Dec 26, 2018
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Agreed except each app won't need a copy of QtWebEngine on disk.
vimslayer
on Dec 26, 2018
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Isn't qt webkit what the infamous pgAdmin 4 used to use?
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