[chrismorgan]

Since you link to the the web demo, I want to caution people: yes, egui can run on the web, but treat that as a demo only done over the web for the convenience of not having to download and run it natively. If you’re making something, do not use egui if you want to actively target the web, because it’s really bad there in fundamentally unfixable ways (given egui’s architecture). Egui is quite compelling on non-web platforms, but it’s not suitable for web content or apps.

More details (including explanation and concrete examples of what’s fundamentally unfixable with egui’s approach to the web, most notably links and scrolling): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33861831

[mwcampbell]

> only done over the web for the convenience of not having to download and run it natively

Isn't that the entire point of web apps for a lot of people, both users and developers? I'm still planning on implementing a web backend for AccessKit sometime in the next year, to make this type of application ported to the web as accessible as the strongly canvas-based approach will allow.

[chrismorgan]

But the fundamental limitations due to mismatched abilities are serious, so that important things are unavoidably just not right in infuriating ways. Games are the only category I can think of where egui can be acceptable on the web.

[galangalalgol]

I didn't have any problems with fonts (I don't block Any), middle clicking opened in a new tab, egui supports context menus, just not the browsers (which is what I want from a webapp).

[chrismorgan]

You’re glossing over the problems.

Font rendering is wrong, even if you aren’t an extremist like me. Stuff is just never going to feel right.

Middle clicking is wrong, it didn’t open in a background tab like it should have, and this is indicative of the fundamental problem, and you couldn’t right click on the link to get the browser’s context menu, which is what you want >99.998% of the time. Browser’s context menu is also rather important in things like text boxes.

Most people won’t be significantly affected by these issues, probably won’t even notice them, or disregard it if they do briefly. But quite a few will loathe your app, because it badly messes up their way of working in ways that no site on the internet does.

[galangalalgol]

I honestly don't care what font a website uses, if it isn't fuzzy I won't notice it. I really dislike webapps that give me the browser context menu instead of their own custom one. I don't think I'd ever noticed middle click was a background tab, but I can see how that could annoy some people.

[chrismorgan]

The text rendering is fuzzy.

I’m talking about right-clicking on a link, for things like Copy Link, or Open Link in New Private Window. Or in a text box for Cut/Copy/Paste/spell-checking.