I think they just meant that an Electron app is still at least (half) browser-based, just you're shipping the user a particular browser alongside the app code.
I too have been following your talk on Tritium, so that for the past few years as I have been hand-crafting a new open document engine for the web I have had your use cases in mind as ones that I might be able to solve if things went very well. That engine is shipping today and I think things have gone quite well, so I would absolutely love to talk to you about how we could reshape the landscape if we put our heads together. I feel certain that what I've built could be made into a groundbreaking product in the law world, if only I knew anything about law (not from TV)!
Yes, except Electron apps have the ability to break out of the sandbox because they control it. I take the point that the web stack is used in Electron apps, but it's the other issues, esp. as compounded by cross-browser compatibility that are hard to solve in what most people think of when you say "a browser" context.
Is that right? They use the version running in a browser?
I think they just meant that an Electron app is still at least (half) browser-based, just you're shipping the user a particular browser alongside the app code.
I too have been following your talk on Tritium, so that for the past few years as I have been hand-crafting a new open document engine for the web I have had your use cases in mind as ones that I might be able to solve if things went very well. That engine is shipping today and I think things have gone quite well, so I would absolutely love to talk to you about how we could reshape the landscape if we put our heads together. I feel certain that what I've built could be made into a groundbreaking product in the law world, if only I knew anything about law (not from TV)!
Electron is literally the browser Chromium (the open source part of Chrome).
Yes, except Electron apps have the ability to break out of the sandbox because they control it. I take the point that the web stack is used in Electron apps, but it's the other issues, esp. as compounded by cross-browser compatibility that are hard to solve in what most people think of when you say "a browser" context.