Bungeefan@lemmy.kde.social to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoLooking at you Ionic, Tauri, ...lemmy.kde.socialimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down11
arrow-up130arrow-down1imageLooking at you Ionic, Tauri, ...lemmy.kde.socialBungeefan@lemmy.kde.social to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squareSavvyWolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 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-up2·11 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-squareSavvyWolf@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 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.
minus-squareCommiunism@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agothey probably meant web versions of the app that run both on chromium and gecko (firefox) browser engines
minus-squaremyersguy@lemmy.simpl.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoAvalonia and Uno Platform if you are working with C#
minus-squareMiku Luna \ she/it@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoIf you count browser engines, don’t forget Webkit.
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.
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.
they probably meant web versions of the app that run both on chromium and gecko (firefox) browser engines
Avalonia and Uno Platform if you are working with C#
If you count browser engines, don’t forget Webkit.