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Looking at you Ionic, Tauri, ... (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Though calling them "cross platform" when all you're doing is opening a website in a browser is IMO a bit rich. Is lemmy cross-platform, too?

If at least they had native UI elements on each platform, we'd be getting somewhere. Fitting design and all.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not just "opening a website in a browser". The UI itself is displayed in a WebView, but Electron (and Tauri etc.) also have code running outside the WebView which interfaces with native APIs etc. Just for a simple example - a normal browser application couldn't open a file on your drive before without showing a dialog (and it still can't without getting permission first), which Electron etc. can.

And this code is absolutely cross-platform. So how is it rich to call an application with a cross-platform UI and cross-platform functionality "cross-platform"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Would you prefer new terminology? Like platform-neutral UI? The way I see it there's CLI, GUI, and WebUI. When discussing platforms for the first two, were discussing the OS, but for the last the platform is the browser.

I honestly don't care what the user interface is as long it's efficient at getting done what I need it to do.