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Felipe Ribeiro

Just adding CEF - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Emb... which is used by Spotify and Steam, for example...

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K

But it's not stand-alone, right?

Where do Spotify and Steam embedd it into? A simple C++ app or Qt or something?

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Felipe Ribeiro

Yeah, you're right, it's not stand-alone.

You need a wrapper for it, usually a simple C++ or you can use one of the bindings for several other languages.

I just thought it was worth mentioning because it's probably the first (big) project to do this, even before NW.

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Felipe Ribeiro

A bit about the Spotify Desktop app: youtube.com/watch?v=9UsnX5X_DF0 ;)

 
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Hehe, true.

Reminds me of a developer I met, back when I was in university, who told me they simply wrote a Web based front-end for their customers and when they whined about browsers not supporting it or that they can't install new browsers, they simply made them a Qt app with a Webkit view. Somehow "stripped down browsers" were okay for enterprise admins, haha.

This was 2010, so it seems to be "a thing" for a long time :D