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It states you can use native components and that it uses webkit. How does this work? I thought native components meant using the OS gui like Win32/MFC etc. How does this work through webkit? Does webkit have Win32 bindings?

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Only a couple of elements are truly native: dialogs (like file pickers) and menus (like the old-fashioned app kind, File, Edit, etc.). See https://wails.io/docs/reference/runtime/dialog and https://wails.io/docs/reference/runtime/menu/

Everything else is rendered in a DOM.

And it doesn't always use WebKit; on Windows it would use Microsoft WebView2, which uses Blink/Edge.

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