Is there any engine/browser mode/something that lets go of legacy JS/CSS/HTML and increases performance/weight/memory consumption?
A browser/JS engine with removed legacy support would in principle be much faster, no?
They're expanding from mobile, ios and android, working on flutter for desktop and web.
They move to the dart language early on in their experiment.
Dart has an online playground https://dartpad.dev which has experimental flutter mode.
Found this flutter hello world! example, don't know how long the link will work. https://dartpad.dev/experimental/embed-new-flutter.html?id=2...
It allows you to make desktop apps with HTML/CSS, but it has its own custom engine that doesn't support all the quirks the web does.
Anyone knows how is the performance?
> Script
> (tbd)Is this compatible out of the box with (most) modern web apps? Because that's the real value of Electron.
No it's not. It uses its own JS-like scripting language, and custom CSS 3 support.
A couple of months ago the author suggested on Reddit he might start working on an Electron alternative that used Node + Sciter.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a8vkzm/scitern...
What is “legacy” CSS? Box model?
What is “legacy” HTML? <br>?
Roughly anything before HTML5/4.01 and XHTML renders in quirks mode.
AFAIK there are no legacy CSS properties. Only nonstandard (i.e. prefixed or experimental and never published in finished specs) properties have been deprecated.
Browsers already have some leeway with DOM APIs. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/01/scrolling-...