This native approach gave the app a performance edge over the web-based version. Now, Meta is returning to WebView2, the Edge framework that wraps apps around the Windows native browser component.

Most of this initial chapter of Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript covers general HTML5 functionality, but there are a few references to items specific to Windows 8.

It replaced the old web-based application with a native version. Besides moving away from PWA, the update introduces a new Quick View similar to what the ChatGPT app on Windows offers.

The application no longer runs on native Windows framework or WinUI. WhatsApp App for Windows was originally launched to provide increased performance, reliability, more ways to collaborate, and ...

Meta has replaced WhatsApp's native Windows 11 app with a Chromium-based web wrapper, prioritizing development ease over performance. This change, currently in beta, sacrifices the original app's ...