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account42 on July 14, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

I don't think KDE ever used KHTML as an app development platform rather than as a plugin for rich text.

necovek on July 17, 2025 [–]

I only offered that in jest: an embeddable rendering engine is really what WebKit + v8 was, and Electron was just a packaging system for it.

There were previous attempts at making cross platform apps for the web and for the desktop.

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