What Electron hast to offer more than a Chrome browser is ability to write and read local files without user intervention. To save file from browser, user must click download link and then choose where to save file or set preference to download all files in the same folder, and after downloading manually move file to its final location. It is not big deal to do it once per session, but imagine saving Leo outline which contains ten or more files. Using Electron would allow user to save files and also to open local files.
You could say that the same functionality can be achieved with python back-end, but sometimes it can be very useful to just read and write local files directly from Web page. It certainly would be much easier to implement than full client-server version for this basic functionality of reading and writing local files. The other advantage of using Electron is that programmer can rely on its Web API rather then to check which browser version user have installed and whether it is compatible or not. The disadvantage is of course size of download (~ 50M). Vitalije On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 4:42:40 AM UTC+1, Terry Brown wrote: > > https://discuss.atom.io/t/how-to-run-electron-desktop-app-in-web-browser-without-downloading/30495 > > > only serves to deepen my suspicions that Electron is solving the wrong > problems. > > Maybe I'll try and make a proof of concept for the python server + some > other js stack just so we're sure we're all on the same page. > > Cheers -Terry > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
