# Using Webkit & HTML for UI?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/using-webkit-html-for-ui/3087>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** other-dev\
**Created:** [December 2, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/using-webkit-html-for-ui/3087 "2009-12-02T18:19:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sansnipple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@sansnipple](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sansnipple)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/using-webkit-html-for-ui/3087/21 "2010-07-15T03:24:59Z")

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performance dude! that’s why a webkit UI for a desktop app is freakin terrible idea, same goes double for air.

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**Author:** ![ajmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ec8ea/32.png) [@ajmas](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ajmas)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/using-webkit-html-for-ui/3087/22 "2010-07-15T11:35:48Z")

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> performance dude! that's why a webkit UI for a desktop app is freakin terrible idea, same goes double for air.

  
  
The only place that performance really matters is in media playback. For the rest the performance is fine. BTW there are plenty of features in Plex that are currently using Python so the notion is that far fetched.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/using-webkit-html-for-ui/3087/23 "2019-12-20T20:33:44Z")

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