9 points | by cranberryturkey 19 hours ago ago
10 comments
A WebView does not a native UI make.
So I rewrote it to use nodegui/qt (desktop) and nativescript (mobile)
> A cross-platform native application framework with UI, API, and DB components.
That sounded good, until I saw
> Frontends (Svelte Web Components), Desktops (Qt GTK), Runtimes (NodeJS Deno Bun)
It's basically another React/React-Native, though being based on Svelte could have more compile-time smarts.
I'm particularly unimpressed with NodeJS, and something like Flutter/Dart seems a step up from that.
That said, I'm glad it was made and it was probably a great challenge and joy to have made. Congrats! (I'm just not the target audience.)
Its my understanding WebView uses GTK. for ios/kde I don't use WebView
WebView is often used as a generic term for any embedded web browser.
Web UI is not native UI, even if it's technically embedded in a GTK/etc app. Native UI would be using the platform's native controls.
This project looks more similar to Tauri[0] than anything related to native UI.
[0]: https://tauri.app/
I’m aware. I don’t like rust though
It's ok not to like Rust.
But that doesn't make your library native at all — just as Tauri is not native, neither is Sans, and that is the point being made here.
Yeah I guess I misunderstood what webview2 does. I thought it created native controls.
GTK WebView (using WebKit) can use GTK to draw certain widgets (aka buttons) but that's about it, and I think this might of been removed.
It's not native.
Interesting.
A WebView does not a native UI make.
So I rewrote it to use nodegui/qt (desktop) and nativescript (mobile)
> A cross-platform native application framework with UI, API, and DB components.
That sounded good, until I saw
> Frontends (Svelte Web Components), Desktops (Qt GTK), Runtimes (NodeJS Deno Bun)
It's basically another React/React-Native, though being based on Svelte could have more compile-time smarts.
I'm particularly unimpressed with NodeJS, and something like Flutter/Dart seems a step up from that.
That said, I'm glad it was made and it was probably a great challenge and joy to have made. Congrats! (I'm just not the target audience.)
Its my understanding WebView uses GTK. for ios/kde I don't use WebView
WebView is often used as a generic term for any embedded web browser.
Web UI is not native UI, even if it's technically embedded in a GTK/etc app. Native UI would be using the platform's native controls.
This project looks more similar to Tauri[0] than anything related to native UI.
[0]: https://tauri.app/
I’m aware. I don’t like rust though
It's ok not to like Rust.
But that doesn't make your library native at all — just as Tauri is not native, neither is Sans, and that is the point being made here.
Yeah I guess I misunderstood what webview2 does. I thought it created native controls.
GTK WebView (using WebKit) can use GTK to draw certain widgets (aka buttons) but that's about it, and I think this might of been removed.
It's not native.
Interesting.