That's true. Of course that's the ultimate draw back of the client/server model. Having just a server isn't enough, you need a client as well. pgAdmin4 is just the server portion of that model. It's relying on borrowing someone else's client. That's frees up quite a bit of resources, not having to write an actual client. Unfortunately that means you have to deal with all of the limitations; speed, footprint, compatibility, security, capabilities that that entails. Contrary to the thought in some circles, not everything is amenable to being served through a web browser.
just one man's opinion.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:10 AM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
Would there be a possibility of embedding chromium? Since of course it's actively developed and everyone including their pet cat are using it as a rendering engine these days (including microsoft) Not sure of the compatibility with the BSD license would go...
It's technically possible of course (one most, but not all of our supported platforms), but would be a massive amount of work, probably tying up most of my team for months whilst they figure out how to glue all the pieces together into Qt on Windows, Mac and Linux. I'd far rather they were building actual features.
