Bungeefan@lemmy.kde.social to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoLooking at you Ionic, Tauri, ...lemmy.kde.socialimagemessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down10
arrow-up140arrow-down1imageLooking at you Ionic, Tauri, ...lemmy.kde.socialBungeefan@lemmy.kde.social to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareSavvyWolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoA pile of HTML + JS is the only cross platform GUI toolkit that’s practical to deploy. I’m not really happy about it myself, but realistically there’s not any other option than just bundling a website into a wrapper. And to pre-empt any replies; your proposed solution must support Windows, Linux (X11 and Wayland), MacOS, iPhone, Android, Chromium and Firefox.
minus-squaregreenskye@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoWhy is Firefox a ‘platform’? I’m assuming chromium is for chromeOS devices, but I don’t know of any device that just runs Firefox.
minus-squareCommiunism@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agothey probably meant web versions of the app that run both on chromium and gecko (firefox) browser engines
minus-squareSavvyWolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoAs Communism said, yeah I was ment a web application. No need to spend dev time working on a different version of your app if you can just reuse the web version.
A pile of HTML + JS is the only cross platform GUI toolkit that’s practical to deploy.
I’m not really happy about it myself, but realistically there’s not any other option than just bundling a website into a wrapper.
And to pre-empt any replies; your proposed solution must support Windows, Linux (X11 and Wayland), MacOS, iPhone, Android, Chromium and Firefox.
Why is Firefox a ‘platform’? I’m assuming chromium is for chromeOS devices, but I don’t know of any device that just runs Firefox.
they probably meant web versions of the app that run both on chromium and gecko (firefox) browser engines
As Communism said, yeah I was ment a web application. No need to spend dev time working on a different version of your app if you can just reuse the web version.
qt?