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		nicoburns on Oct 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Muon: GPU Based Electron on a Diet Sure, but we do have flexbox now. And CSS grid. And have done for over a decade.

int_19h on Oct 4, 2022 [–]

The question was why HTML-based UI became popular. And that predates widespread support for all these things.

0x457 on Oct 6, 2022 | [–]

Flexbox was supported in chrome since Chrome 21 (2012). Electron initial release was in 2013.

To make an electron app, you only care about that your chrome runtime support.

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