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Could you give some examples, please?


I don't have examples, but many "web developers" create desktop apps that thinly wrap webkit or their rendering engine of choice to permit HTML/CSS markup for their GUI.

I do this with Prism all the time to deploy web apps to my company, but you could equally embed webkit yourself into any app - and use these buttons in a single (known working) environment.


An example would be Wolfire's upcoming game Overgrowth. Their level editor has an embedded webkit browser which is used to render their tool palettes. Everything is done in HTML/CSS.




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