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by verandaguy_alt 3000 days ago
>Why do you need an HTML renderer?

Because it's objectively easier to do cross-platform GUI development using a single, well-defined and portable API that someone else maintains.

That that API is nowadays de-facto WebKit supporting a HTML/CSS/JS stack is a natural, but unfortunate choice, and it's got a much lower barrier of entry and much less maintenance overhead than, say, Gtk+ or Qt.