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by liamk 4212 days ago
About 2 years ago, the original macgap project stopped being maintained, so I'm happy to see that someone has forked it and maintaining it.
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Is that why it is being reposted? Cause macgap is really old. There are much much better solutions now and days.
What are some of the other solutions?

(This isn't an area i'm familiar with.)

"Better" will depend on your needs, but things to look at:

Chromium Embedded Framework https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

Atom shell (based on CEF) https://github.com/atom/atom-shell

Brackets Shell (also CEF based) https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell

node-webkit https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

TideSDK http://www.tidesdk.org/

More: http://www.trueinteractions.com/

You can also apparently just roll your own if you want: https://github.com/lostdecade/web_view_example

Tide Doesn't look like it's been updated in a while. Looks like it's at the same version from ~2 years ago.
They rebranded as Tidekit [0] , I've been following their Twitter account for ~ a year now, but it's still vaporware

[0] https://www.tidekit.com/

One of them is node-webkit (https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit)
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