Webxdc - Secure mini apps for chats
15 points by ecksdee
15 points by ecksdee
Isn't it an overkill to have to embed a browser in your chat app in order to do this?
Also I get the impression that these apps are not integrated with the chat, they are just independent places on the side.
They are integrated with the chat; the chat app provides an API for the embedded app to send data to the other chat participants.
The web turns out to be a pretty good universal runtime for embedded apps like this that need to be strictly confined and easily run without too much ceremony. These can run on many different platforms (Android, iOS, Windows, Linux...); if not the web, then what?