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You mean, "website with native API's and (optionally) custom native chrome".

Developers don't use electron because it'll get its own browser engine instance.

Depends, there is a bunch of Electron apps that work just fine as websites (e.g. Slack, Spotify, Microsoft Teams, etc. As far as I know). I personally prefer running those in a browser tab to both save resources and benefit from privacy enhancing tools like content blockers, etc. I would be curious to know how many of the Electron apps actually need these extra native APIs.

Some of those you listed have extra features with electron. I was just being sarcastic with my remark. Like I don’t believe you can screen share with slack via a browser for example.

> Like I don’t believe you can screen share with slack via a browser for example.

If you can't, it's not the browser's fault. I can definitely screen share in Jitsi from the browser, so there's no technical reason Slack shouldn't be able to do the same thing.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capt...

You can show your screen but you cannot pass control.

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