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pojala / electrino

Desktop runtime for apps built on web technologies, using the system's own web browser engine
MIT License
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Merge with MacGap #10

Open ricardobeat opened 7 years ago

ricardobeat commented 7 years ago

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away: https://github.com/MacGapProject/MacGap1

macgap has much wider API support, but has been suffering from lack of interest. How about we direct some of this newfound hunger for thin apps into making it alive again?

tbodt commented 7 years ago

But MacGap isn't cross-platform...

ricardobeat commented 7 years ago

Neither is Electrino at the moment... I guess what I'm saying is there is already a base to build upon instead of starting again from scratch, then time can be spent on making it actually cross-platform - right now this is nothing new.

styfle commented 7 years ago

It seems like some of the source code would be valuable but the two projects have different goals, specifically the exposed API.

pojala commented 7 years ago

Yes, the difference to MacGap is that Electrino should ideally provide a strict subset of Electron APIs.

The licenses are compatible, so nothing prevents sharing code though!

taoeffect commented 7 years ago

This sounds like a great idea. 👍

Just hope it can be done in a cross-platform way, as that's the entire benefit of Electron. Given that though, I assume that it will be.