Many of the most popular games have had web-based main menu.
I had no idea, I don't personally play either of those. It must be easier to program them this way or more cost effective for development.Many of the most popular games have had web-based main menu.
Dota2 is an obvious one.
But also PUBG for example.
Building (and maintaining) web-based user interface is several magnitudes easier, simpler and FASTER than doing it "natively".I had no idea, I don't personally play either of those. It must be easier to program them this way or more cost effective for development.
Many of the most popular games have had web-based main menu.
Dota2 is an obvious one.
But also PUBG for example.
I dont understand how they fucked up this release this bad. It defies logic.
"Using Chromium to build the entire thing" is called Electron and it's an industry leading technology of building UI:...Blizzard has apparently used Chromium to build the entire thing.
"Using Chromium to build the entire thing" is called Electron and it's an industry leading technology of building UI:
You might see some familiar names in the list of programs built on it
The other leader is called React Native and it also "uses Chromium to build the entire thing". Granted it's more of a mobile app solution competing with Ionic (yet another web based platform).
Edit:
Here's even longer list of programs "using Chromium to build the entire thing":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework#Applications_using_CEF
It's also a reason why most of them suck and take way more resources than native apps.Building (and maintaining) web-based user interface is several magnitudes easier, simpler and FASTER than doing it "natively".
There is a reason most of desktop programs, most of the mobile apps and ALL of TV apps are web-based, and have been for a full decade now if not longer and you haven't noticed.
Steam, Discord, Skype, Netflix -- name anything you work with daily. Even heavy duty programs like Adobe's photo and video editors are web-based apps.
Mostly a myth. You get slightly higher ram and disk usage and performance is fine for 99 percent of typical desktop app use cases. Vs code is an electron app.It's also a reason why most of them suck and take way more resources than native apps.
Not a myth. I deal with that every day.Mostly a myth. You get slightly higher ram and disk usage and performance is fine for 99 percent of typical desktop app use cases. Vs code is an electron app.
Not the same thing. The web-based stuff in Dota is for things like bringing up store pages or reading patch notes.Many of the most popular games have had web-based main menu.
Dota2 is an obvious one.
But also PUBG for example.
I actually just switched to VSCode and it runs like shit. Getting a browser crash when trying to search large files is a first for me and it blows.Mostly a myth. You get slightly higher ram and disk usage and performance is fine for 99 percent of typical desktop app use cases. Vs code is an electron app.
Does the Xbox One do the same? Because I swear, navigating the Store feels like I'm using a browser navigating an extremely heavy website at times.This is a bigger issue among all desktop software. Anyone who used Spotify back in 2010 and is still using it today knows what a huge regression has happened there. It went from a very lightweight music streaming client to a browser-based one that performs terribly. Steam also did the same with the new web-based library view, many have said that the performance got a lot worse. Steam's "small mode" is still the old code though.
personally, i don't think i've ever seen vs code climb over 300mb, it might be a faulty extension.Yes, and it takes almost 1 Gb in memory for what's essentially a text editor without any plug-in and similar feature set.
Compare RAM and CPU usage between something like Sublime Text. The difference is HUGE, colossal.
The only web-based menu I fuck with, was when Battlefield had it on PC. It was neat using my secondary monitor as a giant map in the browser window.
I see you're unfamiliar with JavaScript developers. It's both.
I dont understand how they fucked up this release this bad. It defies logic.