WebView Right Click & Navigation requested notification

[BalajiSubramaniam]

Right Click Ability to show a native context menu, where menu items are defined in XAML/C#, for the WebView when a right click is performed. Use Cases :

• Show native context menu when right click on the WebView

Navigation Requested (decision-making) Notify when navigation is being requested providing the option to allow or cancel. Intent is to support the concept of whitelisting and provide ability to review each requested URL to allow or cancel navigation accordingly. Use Cases :

• Intercept function to launch a web request
• Override calls to different webpages
• Navigation to non-whitelisted URL's Only whitelisted URL's
• Configuration based domains Ex. JSON : Domain whitelisting (ex. *.microsoft.com)

[Axemasta]

The functionality you describe is something that the developer would want to implement within your application. I built a browser based app in Xamarin Forms with exactly the features you described: Ability to decide whether to navigate to allowed urls / domains.

You can use the WebView.Navigating event to determine this functionality.

The Xamarin implementation was plagued by a bug where navigating decisions wouldn't work with tasks, this is due to how that renderer was implemented (using an old school WPF pattern to cancel the navigation). This bug (more like design oversight) has been ported to MAUI, I raised this in Xamarin & Maui repos years ago at this point, I even did a PR for Xamarin but it got ignored due to the feature freeze of XF 5.

The workaround in Xamarin is to use my forked SuperWebView control which is the code from Xamarin, ported to another library and then altered to allow asynchronous web request cancellation. I didn't plan on porting the control to MAUI but it looks like I might have to since there appears to be no activity on community contributions, which is a shame.

[jsuarezruiz]

You can find a sample to achieve something similar here https://github.com/dotnet/maui/blob/main/src/Controls/samples/Controls.Sample/Pages/Core/ContextFlyoutPage.xaml#L122

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