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[–] 21 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Every operating system contributed to the bloat. Windows has Win32, OS X has Carbon / Cocoa, Linux has X11 and various widget libs that sit on top of it. So it has been a perennial nut to crack to make cross platform widgets - wxWidgets, QT, SWT/JWT/Swing on Java, XMLShell (Firefox), Electron, GTK/GTK#, winelib etc.

Throw mobile platforms into the mix and it's an unholy mess. Lowest common denominator is HTML and so the likes of Electron "wins" even though it's bloated and slow.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    i actually don't have a problem with HTML, i just think that instead of every app shipping their own copy of electron, the operating system should provide basic browser functionality.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    But that's cause it wasn't FOSS, but instead a privately owned closed-source app

    If an open standard was set, and agreed upon by most, then nobody would sue anyone

    Heck, many Linux distros come with a browser preinstalled, but use a FOSS one to not hit that legal problem

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