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[–] 9point6 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I will say that unless something's changed in Windows recently, the win32 API webview is still a vestigial version of internet explorer due to Microsoft's obsession with non breaking changes (not saying that's a bad thing)

Given I lived through those years as an engineer, I completely understand people wanting to avoid that particular ancient eldritch horror.

Edit: apparently there's webview2 now based on edge (and therefore chromium), I take it all back