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by Klonoar 1799 days ago
This will never be the same as Electron due to differences in the various rendering engines (e.g, Webkit2/WKWebView/WebView2 all have subtle differences), and this isn't accounting for version differences.

The reason people ship Electron is because Electron is literally the same thing wherever you shove it. You can search on this very forum for comments from the dev who migrated Slack from per-platform-WebViews to Electron.
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lukevp 1799 days ago
That’s what I meant by evergreen webviews. I think you missed the point of what I was saying. There are not evergreen webviews cureently. They currently only update webviews on major OS releases. with windows 11 they will ship an evergreen webview for use by Teams and will abandon trident as well. it’s currently a react/electron app that will run in the OS webview on Windows instead of in Electron. This is precisely the reason MS is doing this. Slack was os-specific before evergreen webviews were a thing.
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Klonoar 1799 days ago
>I think you missed the point of what I was saying.

I don't believe I have, and I believe you're missing the point - much like everyone who says that platform-specific WebViews are the solution to Electron.

Go actually read the comments from the devs who migrated away from WKWebView. What you are describing will not solve what they sought to get away from.

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