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Minecraft ChromiumEF (based on JCEF)
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Why not port to Webview (or other engine)..? #19

Closed vico93 closed 8 years ago

vico93 commented 8 years ago

I'm not a expert on Java, but after seeing to this day no one was able to simply build JCEF for OS X, i'm throwing some bits here:

http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/webview/jfxpub-webview.htm

It seems to be native of (Oracle) Java i assume it could run in any platform. Aside it uses webkit as engine, just like Chrome/CEF.

And some topics about this subject in StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/48249/is-there-a-way-to-embed-a-browser-in-java http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2020854/embed-firefox-browser-in-java-swing http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21219966/embedding-a-web-browser-html-engine-in-java

Another thing: in next versions (if happen) you guys could make a fork of Minecraft Forge Installer to "automate" (aka put jar libraries and dll/so natives in right (standard for minecraft) folders instead of bloat .minecraft) all the thing. I'm pretty sure this would help a lot of noob users (like me).

montoyo commented 8 years ago

Hello, First of all WebView is part of the JavaFX library, which means it is for Graphical User Interfaces and I certainly won't be able to "render" it in memory (i.e. not directly on the user's screen but in an OpenGL texture that can then be rendered in Minecraft).

Also WebView doesn't support HTML5/CSS3 as good as Chromium does, and as far as I know it doesn't support Flash at all. Even though Flash has some security issues, it is still widely used and Chromium uses some kind of sandbox which "fixes" these security problems.

So no, I won't switch to another engine :)

spannerman79 commented 8 years ago

and as far as I know it doesn't support Flash at all. Even though Flash has some security issues

Well more then just a few security issues. Even Adobe themselves have stopped development and support/EOL'ed Flash from 2017-01-31 ( Source )