Desktop packaging?
inspector71 opened this issue · 0 comments
I wonder if it's worth looking at rolling this editor into a desktop app?
Unfortunately PWA is AFAIK not an open or universal standard. Mozilla refuses to support it and IIRC actually removed the code already written to at least partially support PWAs.
Completely random, no vested interest or experience with it, but the following popped into a feed I read:
Basically - from what little I've read so far, it's a 'backend' written in Google's Go language that integrates with the three common desktop platforms and provides access to the platform's web engine for web stack front ends. Therefore it's different to Electron in that it's not going to be responsible for creating a plethora of apps with different copies of a web engine in any one system.
Full disclosures:
I've no particular interest in promoting monopolies like the big G via their Go language but is there a better option on the landscape of cross platform development. Mozilla only ever seen to make token efforts towards pushing Gecko in this context though they've done so on mobile more recently.
Also, indirectly but fundamentally, in a desktop context, Hypertext Plus already heavily replies on Google's Chrome via PWA.
Not suggesting desktop option needs to be a goal. I just feel it would be absolutely sensational to have a web stack alternative to the craptacular limits of Notepad, Wordpad and as a genuine simplified, free alternative to MS Word (for all the simple use cases Word, Writer etc are very over engineered for).