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Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability
You can create the webview using each platforms native GUI toolkit and setup JS communication yourself OR you can use a lightweight library that does it for [1] (search its README for language "bindings").
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Nui C++ User Interface Library
Nui could base on this in theory. Nui uses https://github.com/webview/webview under the hood, which provides browser windows for linux, windows or mac. Nui adds some cmake to make the "in-browser" and "main-process" part appear seemless, as well adding a DSEL for the "in-browser" view part.
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[Golang] Recommandation de bibliothèque d'interface utilisateur légère
WebView 7k
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Did you hear about using a web browser as GUI using C99?
You mean something like this?
- Desktop apps with golang
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Neutralinojs – Build lightweight cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript
Golang can compile to windows statically, and on Windows those bindings are using the MSWebView2 API (aka Microsoft Edge webview).
I know that you can also compile the webview.cc into a dll specifically, and link against that. But I'd never done with Visual C++ because I am cross-compiling from Linux to Windows.
The README of the webview/webview project refers to the WebView2 SDK on NuGet, however [1]
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The Quest for the Ultimate GUI Framework
The author shrugs off web tech (maybe because of electron bloat?) but you can avoid the bloat by using each platforms native web browser control. There are even cross-platform libraries that make creating the native control and cross-communication simple. These applications would be architecturally similar to Win32 apps using and communicating with a XAML Island, but the advantage of web tech is it's an open standard and WPF/WinUI is not.
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Should web developers learn Flutter instead of React Native/Electron for mobile/desktop apps?
From a more established company with more guaranteed long-term support than the web frameworks that solve the above problems (like Tauri and Webview)
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Is there anything like electron for go?
lower lever/simpler than wails is https://github.com/webview/webview
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Pytonium - A framework for building python apps, with a GUI based on the web-technologies HTML, CSS and Javascript. Would be happy to hear some feedback on the code and the idea
WebView : Uses a WebView control
qtwebkit
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30% of Firefox users have ≤4 GB of RAM in 2023 - web browsers should be more lightweight and optimize RAM usage
Not so ancient - Otter uses QtWebKit 5.212 from Mar 10, 2020.
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Browser engine in Otter
AFAIK, Otter Browser uses the latest QtWebkit-ng on Windows. It scores 341 points in HTML5Test. There is also an experimental Qt WebEngine backend.
I am aware that there is an independent project to keep QtWebkit alive but this one also seems to have been discontinued since ~2020.
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Any WebKit browsers for windows 10?
Otter Browser is based on QtWebKit-NG, which is from 2020, so still relevant. That said, you can use the nightly WebKit build from Playwright: https://i.postimg.cc/Fz7FwRQW/Playwright.png
Otter Browser is not that outdated, it is based on QtWebKit-NG, which was updated in 2020.
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Which Embed Browser engine to use?
Lastly, the other webkit based project, QtWebkit. It is also very lightweight and fast, It also provides a cross-platform render and It has access to the system dialogs. The down side is that you will have to make a Qt App to use it. If you don't want to implement it, then you cannot use It
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Qutebrowser v2.0.0 released (with better adblocker)
> I hate that it's based on Chromium though
There aren't really many alternatives. The main one is WebKitGTK, but that comes with its own set of issues (mostly performance/compatibility). You can use qutebrowser with QtWebKit as well, but I wouldn't recommend it - it's based on a 2018 WebKit with many known security issues: https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/releases
I had hoped for Servo to fill that gap at some point, but so far that hasn't happened yet: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/27579
Another possibility is for Geckoview to be ported to Desktop platforms some day: https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ - something the people behind Tridactyl would like to happen: https://tridactyl.xyz/ideas/#port-geckoview-to-x86_64
> and Qutebrowser privacy related settings also seem quite limited compared to Firefox... (and even compared to Chromium.)
Can you be more specific? Pretty much anything that's possible to expose (either via a QtWebEngine API or via Chromium commandline arguments) is exposed. Certain things (like deleting cookies belonging to a tab when it's closed) just aren't possible without implementing them in QtWebEngine first unfortunately.
FWIW there's an overview here: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/4045
Note that Otter Browser uses QtWebKit by default, which is based on a 2018 WebKit with many known security issues: https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/releases
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Multiple distros considering removal of Chromium
and Qt has mostly moved to qtwebengine/blink. qt-webkit is sort-of-not-really maintained by very few volunteers. https://github.com/qtwebkit/qtwebkit/releases
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[CENSORSHIP] Mozilla goes all-in on deplatforming
While you can still use it with QtWebKit instead, I wouldn't recommend doing so, as that's still based on a 2018 WebKit with no process isolation or sandboxing.
What are some alternatives?
fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
Lorca - Build cross-platform modern desktop apps in Go + HTML5
sciter - Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
qtwebengine - Qt WebEngine
wry - Cross-platform WebView library in Rust for Tauri.
Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go
neutralinojs - Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework
Ultralight - Lightweight, high-performance HTML renderer for game and app developers.
flet - Flet enables developers to easily build realtime web, mobile and desktop apps in Python. No frontend experience required.
go-astilectron - Build cross platform GUI apps with GO and HTML/JS/CSS (powered by Electron)