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Electron Spins: a special case of Chromium mods

ges of modifying Chromium, compounded Chromium is a powerful project, implementing functionality that's critical to the web and web-related technologies. Perhaps the greatest credit to its quality and completeness is the fact that it's become an almost-de facto standard.

This spin on Electron uses a URL Loader Request interceptor that kicks in when a user navigates (e.g., clicks a link to) a raw Markdown document. If the Electron project adopted this approach to extensibility, it could open up a world where installable JavaScript apps can use their leading platform, but also have access to features which aren't suitable to be included in a global-scoped project like Chromium or Electron — features that are too new, too non-standard, too niche, or too integrated with the OS. It also becomes quite reasonable to isolate just the feature and its modification into a project that a few JS apps could share simply by changing `electron-prebuilt` to `my-electron-prebuilt` in their build system.

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