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24 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 5 stories, 19 comments · first 2021-06-10 · latest 2025-11-07
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…avoidable." He also kindly pointed to this GH Issue which discusses your privacy concern: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/105... This quote from the issue stood out in particular: " WebView2 is considered a Windows…
comment by Tinos · 2025-02-25 · in Show HN: Electro – A hyper-fast Windows image viewer with a built-in terminal -
Similarly to https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/131... , I'm actually a bit confused - Edge is supported on Macs and Linux, Teams is apparently using this internally, so they're just... not packaging the thing they…
comment by yjftsjthsd-h · 2024-07-11 · in WebView2 drops future Linux and Mac support -
…constraint. Microsoft themselves are working to extend fast performance webviews to Xbox uwp's. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/215... You're also not acknowledging the upside. Plenty of games would love to have an…
comment by jauntywundrkind · 2023-10-04 · in Show HN: Ambient, a multiplayer game engine and platform using WASM/WebGPU/Rust -
Comment on the page point to a few GitHub issues for macOS and Linux support. Linux: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645... > Hey all - We don't currently have a timeline for when we would begin this work.…
comment by mroche · 2023-02-21 · in Microsoft Teams is getting big performance improvements next month -
…but only for Windows! Maybe some day we can have WebView2 in Linux[1] and others. [1] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645
comment by ttrrooppeerr · 2023-02-20 · in Microsoft Teams is getting big performance improvements next month -
…be abandonware. They don't fix the most obvious bugs you run into immediately when trying it out. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/229...
comment by stkdump · 2022-10-26 · in Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra -
…on the release roadmap yet. Though I guess that makes the switch from electron even more confusing. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645
comment by mardifoufs · 2022-09-01 · in MS Teams Linux client is being retired. To be replaced by a progressive web app -
…candidate is the official webview shipped on windows, but it is currently lacking linux support https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645... Linux webviews like e.g. tauri are shit, they use webkit wich leads to platform…
comment by SemanticStrengh · 2022-05-11 · in W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group -
If it is cross-platform it doesn't seem to be very mature cross-platform: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645 .
comment by eatonphil · 2021-11-08 · in .NET 6 Released -
earlier today I checked again the mac tracking issue: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/131... as I hope for improvements for the unacceptable Teams client, and there is a new comment mentioning Oct '22 for the mac…
comment by gbil · 2021-11-02 · in Microsoft’s Edge browser is now available on Linux -
…as a stepping stone toward WebView2 on Linux, which will give Electron some serious competition: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645...
comment by ripley12 · 2021-11-02 · in Microsoft’s Edge browser is now available on Linux -
WebView2 will be coming to macOS then Linux in the not-so-distant future: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645... I'm not aware of any public plans to move VS Code to WebView2, but I would be surprised if it doesn't…
comment by ripley12 · 2021-09-29 · in Making bracket pair colorization faster -
WebView2 Linux support: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645 WebView2 Mac Support: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/131...
comment by riidom · 2021-08-28 · in Microsoft Is Finally Ditching Electron (For Teams) -
When this issue was closed 27 days ago a new one was opened: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/150... I am not the OP for either GitHub issue nor have I responded yet; I just found these when doing a little digging…
comment by thevibesman · 2021-08-03 · in Is This [WebView2] Spyware? -
…will happen anyway. [0] https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su... [1] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645...
comment by spystath · 2021-06-26 · in Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2 -
WebView2 is being ported to Mac and Linux https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645... Linux looks like it won't happen until 2022 but Mac is first. I'd guess they are aiming to have it release around the same time as a…
comment by zamadatix · 2021-06-26 · in Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2 -
Looks like they're porting it to macOS and Linux: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645
comment by moogly · 2021-06-26 · in Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2 -
…to macOS and then Linux. No timeline though. So this will eventually also apply to macOS, yes. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/131... https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645
comment by fuzzy2 · 2021-06-26 · in Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2 -
Apparently, Microsoft is looking to port WebView2 to both macOS and Linux: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/131... https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645
comment by fuzzy2 · 2021-06-25 · in MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.