• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not literally just a browser. It’s literally just a web engine with a full set of OS calls hooked in. It is not a browser in the same way GNOME is not an OS. A browser comes with a whole lot more than a web engine, so calling it “a browser” is wrong both technically and colloquially.

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      1 year ago

      Electron is a framework for building desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. By embedding Chromium and Node.js into its binary, Electron allows you to maintain one JavaScript codebase and create cross-platform apps that work on Windows, macOS, and Linux — no native development experience required.

      Electron docs

      Electron is so much more than “just a web engine with a full set of OS xalls hooked in”. Ultralight and Sciter are frameworks that actually just happen to use HTML, CSS and JavaScript for UI development. They aren’t fully-fledged web browsers without a search box, they are tailor-made for app development.

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        1 year ago

        Yea, that was less ideal word choice by me. The point is that part is ONLY an html/css engine, not a sandbox and web api implementation plus tons of extras and plugins like a browser.

        Very, VERY different animals, even if it used the exact same rendering engines as a browser.