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0 pointskodablah8y ago0 comments

Sure the analogy is imperfect. I also don't have a perfect analogy for a browser vendor hobbling its newer product. But I'm just appealing to common sense wrt not addressing an extremely common use of something yet wanting that something to stop being used.

I personally don't think they should implement the MSHTML/COM APIs with Edge any more than I think they should implement ActiveX on Edge. The old tech can die its slow death, so long as there is a viable replacement.

Selfishly, I want this for https://github.com/zserge/webview to watch Electron adoption decrease or even an API-compat version using shared libs already on the system.

0 pointskodablah8y ago0 comments

Selfishly, I want this for https://github.com/zserge/webview to watch Electron adoption decrease or even an API-compat version using shared libs already on the system.

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cptskippy8y ago· 2 in thread

It's less about hobbling Edge and more about compelling you to not use Win32 while keeping you stuck in Windows. Win32 needs to die and Microsoft is doing everything it can to kill it while not completely pissing off those that rely upon it.

Part of the problem is that if they force everyone to rewrite Win32 native apps then what's stopping them from just going to MacOS or something else?

They want everyone off Win32 but still locked into Windows.

userbinator8y ago

I'm pretty sure it's not going away, especially because the newer more bloated stuff they're trying to push is built on top of it, and that's not going to change unless MS decides to start officially documenting the native NTAPI.

They day they get rid of Win32 is the day I switch completely to Linux+WINE or even ReactOS.

cptskippy8y ago

Such as? Products like Office have undergone significant refactoring to remove reliance on Win32. They have something like over 90% code reuse between Office apps on MacOS, OSX, Android, Win32, and Xaml.

With every release of Windows 10, more and more GDI and Win32 is replaced.

Part of the MinWin project was to extricate Win32 from the kernel and have a true separation.

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chrismorgan8y ago

Amusingly, I’m the one that filed https://github.com/zserge/webview/issues/85!

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