"Here's a website that you needed to install on your phone to see!"
using a phone to browse the internet
i seriously hope you guys don't do this
Definitely! I work at a computer 8-10 hours per day, 5 days a week. The last thing I want to do when I'm done working is sit at computer some more. I do almost all of my browsing on my phone. Firefox Mobile Nightly, plus NextDNS, plus Nord VPN, plus uBlock origin, plus a fake user agent string. I'm pretty secure on my phone.
Spend 500 hours re-engineering your application for each platform
Just using ten year old proven technology that's built on a universal backwards compatible frameworkYou say that, but it seems every major electron update will break your app.
Sure. But that's one point of failure relative to the N points tied to each major update to a "supported" platform.
Tauri uses the OS's built in webview libraries as opposed to bundling a whole browser engine like electron. It's still not as good as native in terms of size and speed, but it should be a lot better than electron.
At least webviews don’t (yet, Google be trying) have the ability to request attestation & ban me for not using the stock, bloatware OS every device comes with. Bonus that I get to keep my data inside the browser’s sandbox; it’s the easiest way to be safe with proprietary software.
If only my bank could get the memo & make their website not suck (it legit checks for Netscape Navigator 4 in the source) so I can be at peace with microG+LineageOS in the phone space (all the banks here do it & I already switched once until my bank, slowly but inevitably ‘modernized’ their app).
But my beloved Netscape! How will I possibly learn a new browser? I'm too old to learn!