Is Microsoft teams desktop app just IE Edge without an address bar?
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@xaade Apps that are just a webview thread is
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Not necessarily, though. UWP apps can give their webviews access to the full UWP API.
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Probably not, unless the Mac app is completely different
Regardless, it is neither responsive nor reliable
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@bb36e said in Is Microsoft teams desktop app just IE Edge without an address bar?:
Probably not, unless the Mac app is completely different
Do you mean “Probably, unless the Mac app is completely different”? I decided to download it and see, but it requires me to log in with an account I don’t have and don’t plan to create before I can do anything. However, if I click on the links to say I don’t have access to my account, I get this screen:
The bit with the grey background at the top reads “This site uses cookies blah blah blah” which is a rather odd thing to say in a desktop app unless it’s actually just a webview masquerading as one.
Edit: Interesting. I clicked on the Dock icon to switch back to it, and even though I still wasn’t logged in, it popped a big white window with a blue title bar over my entire screen, with as its title “Checking your connection…” (in English) and opened a second, much smaller window to tell me (in Dutch) that a connection is being made. No progress appears to happen in either, of course.
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@gurth I mean it's a web view, but probably not edge, unless edge is really as laggy as teams is
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They didn't use Edge, they used Electron.
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@alexmedia said in Is Microsoft teams desktop app just IE Edge without an address bar?:
They didn't use Edge, they used Electron.
Maybe we’ll see the Teams client itself added to GitHub soon?
yeah.....
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@alexmedia said in Is Microsoft teams desktop app just IE Edge without an address bar?:
They didn't use Edge, they used Electron.
Hah, yes, they did indeed:
Some weirdness in the app package is that there are a ton of localisation directories, all of which are empty, including
en.lproj, but then there’s also alocalesdirectory that contains a bunch of JSON files for the languages the app supports — though that’s not as many as the .lproj dirs make it seem.
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@masonwheeler said in Is Microsoft teams desktop app just IE Edge without an address bar?:
@xaade Apps that are just a webview thread is
.AKA: The bad idea thread
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@timebandit Maintaining one implementation of a program instead of two or more is a bad idea?
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@anonymous234 No, but JavaScript on the desktop is a bad idea.
If you want me to use a web-app, let me use the browser I want, which is already installed on my computer.
You want a cross-platform app but only write it once ? You have multiple choices.
Ex.:
Qt | Tools for Each Stage of Software Development Lifecycle
All the essential Qt tools for all stages of Software Development Lifecycle: planning, design, development, testing, and deployment.
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@xaade said in Is Microsoft teams desktop app just IE Edge without an address bar?:
@alexmedia said in Is Microsoft teams desktop app just IE Edge without an address bar?:
They didn't use Edge, they used Electron.
Maybe we’ll see the Teams client itself added to GitHub soon?
yeah.....
Oh that would be good, maybe someone will finally fix the Reply button to not take as much space as the posts.
I still don't get how Teams want you to converse. It has the interface of a Slack-like chat client, except they're shoving that Reply button in your face so I guess they want you to have threaded conversations? Unless you're in a private chat which looks the same as a channel, except with no Reply button at all...
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@maciejasjmj said in Is Microsoft teams desktop app just IE Edge without an address bar?:
I still don't get how Teams want you to converse.
It's to clarify who you are replying to, and to keep threads separate instead of interspacing them because it's a timeline.
I don't think it really helps, because the conversations rapidly go offscreen.
