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diath • last Monday at 2:09 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Too little too late now that the new meta is to use system provided webviews so you don't have to ship a big ass web renderer per app.

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bastawhiz • last Monday at 2:14 PM

System web views were available as drag and drop components in VB6 two and a half decades ago. There's nothing "new" about that as a concept, and plenty of reasons to not want to use Blink/WebKit.

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swiftcoder • last Monday at 2:13 PM

No particular reason Servo couldn't one day become the system web view on Linux distros...

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charcircuit • last Monday at 4:08 PM

That is not the meta. The meta is to ship blink so you only have to support a single version of a single web engine in stead of many versions of many different web engines.