>Making an installer is not that hard, and you should have enough respect for your users' compute resources to go through the modicum of effort it takes.
No. As shown by the slew of other comments in this thread, it's not just about getting the runtime to load. You still have other issues involved.
You should have enough respect for your own time and money to ship the product and not open yourself up to a litany of cross-platform issues. Your job is not to fix OS vendors failing to get a common UI framework in place.
Signed, someone who has literally dealt with cross-platform-webviews in a shipping product in the past six months, and who builds native Mac apps.
No. As shown by the slew of other comments in this thread, it's not just about getting the runtime to load. You still have other issues involved.
You should have enough respect for your own time and money to ship the product and not open yourself up to a litany of cross-platform issues. Your job is not to fix OS vendors failing to get a common UI framework in place.
Signed, someone who has literally dealt with cross-platform-webviews in a shipping product in the past six months, and who builds native Mac apps.