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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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    WebView2 content is unexpectedly rendered in dark mode when Windows in dark mode
    story by xhelphin · 2025-11-07 · 0 comments
  2. …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
  3. 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
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    WebView2 drops future Linux and Mac support
    story by smaddock · 2024-07-11 · 3 comments
  5. …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
  6. 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
  7. …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
  8. …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
  9. …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
  10. …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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. …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
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    Ask HN: What does the future hold for Electron?
    story by vaughan · 2021-10-16 · 3 comments
  15. 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
  16. 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)
  17. 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?
  18. ▲ 2
    Is This [WebView2] Spyware?
    story by thevibesman · 2021-08-03 · 1 comment
  19. …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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. …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
  23. 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.
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    Is This Spyware?
    story by dvt · 2021-06-10 · 1 comment