On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 12:21 PM Botond Ballo <bba...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> > My understanding (which may be wrong!)
> > is that the purpose of the C++ proposal isn't to enable creating Web
> > browsers around the API but to use the API to render the GUI for a
> > local C++ app whose primary purpose isn't to browse the Web, so I
> > assume "I want a URL bar" is the opposite of what the proposal is
> > after.
>
> Correct. The goal is to leverage the web platform to write C++
> applications with graphical output and user interaction, not to write
> browsers.
>
> If we would find it reassuring if the proposal explicitly called out
> writing browsers on top of this API as a non-goal, I can suggest that.
>

I don't take that to be the primary objection.

-Ekr
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