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Why is the app's web browser fully featured and allow you to visit any other website?

A topic by Atirut-W created Jul 29, 2021 Views: 449 Replies: 3
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This seems very overkill for a client app

Admin(+1)

We needed a browser that could load all of itch.io to let you access the site entirely, so we let it also go to other websites if you click on an external link. I do not recommend using it like a regular browser, as it is lacking many standard features. In the future we plan to limit which pages can be loaded in the in-app browser to just itch.io.

Would it be possible to implement a sort of API that allow the app to get data like front page stuff, game info, etc. without actually loading the whole website? If I know how to make apps like Itch or know how to modify the source then I'd want to implement that.

Admin(+1)

We don’t have an API endpoint for the homepage contents at this time. The app is built using web technologies (Electron) so instead of creating a new UI we were able to use the existing website