jspaint.exe VS webui

This is very polished and cool looking. Inspiring. I find this project's level of polish very inspiring.

It's lovely to see someone has captured this idea and expressed it in the right way to make it interesting to many people. I really hope this mode of desktop apps can take off, at least to the level where the community has something to explore for a while to see if it works. I made something like this for Chrome browsers a while ago, nodejs backends, vanilla front-ends, built-in packaging using pkg. It's just a nice approach: https://github.com/dosyago/graderjs

And I made a demo using the venerable MS Paint clone JS Paint^0. The dev experience was great, I literally just dropped in the front-end code to the right folder, compiled it and wham, "desktop JS paint" on 3 platforms, haha.

Using the ubiquitous local browser as the rendering / API engine for desktop just seems smart. And it's technically interesting, because you get to think in terms of how can you step back from the browser, the platform, the front-end and the back-end and come up with a general API that addresses all of it, which is kinda cool.

0: https://github.com/00000o1/jspaint.exe

Jspaint.exe – JS Paint as a cross-platform native desktop app\ (23 comments)

It's not confidence-inspiring that https://webui.me throws security warnings. I'd want folks to make applications "that make applications" to take security a little more seriously.

Would creating a Fortran module to use WebUI as GUI be worth it? Is there a need for GUI libraries in Fortran, or not many?

The result is pretty good! Take a look at the implementation in the WebUI open-source project.

If you find a solution, please share it with us in Github. We are struggling with this issue :)

I created this issue: https://github.com/alifcommunity/webui/issues/87

I am sharing with you guys an excellent GUI library, V-WebUI (Based on WebUI written in C), a lightweight library that uses any web browser as GUI. It's totally portable and has no dependencies. I test it, and I like it.

Adding a little context: I believe that projects like webui will be the future electron/webview killers. Unfortunately this code is very poorly done. I want to make my own, but I wouldn't want to have to do any gross cheating to make it compatible with Firefox.