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tuarua / WebViewANE

WebView Adobe Air Native Extension for macOS 10.10+, Windows Desktop, iOS 9.0+ and Android 19+. This ANE provides access to a more modern webview from AIR.
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Microsoft Modern WebView (Edge) in Win32 in future update #132

Closed tuarua closed 6 years ago

tuarua commented 6 years ago

Microsoft have announced that a future Windows update will include an Edge based Win32 control to replace the old IE11 based control.

https://youtu.be/D6YAJxFsmuM?t=277

This ticket is to track updates and investigate ability to choose this control or existing CEF browser.

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tuarua commented 6 years ago

Updates: https://github.com/Microsoft/WindowsCommunityToolkit/blob/master/docs/controls/WebView.md

https://github.com/Microsoft/WindowsCommunityToolkit/blob/master/docs/controls/WebView-known-issues.md

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2018/05/09/modern-webview-winforms-wpf-apps/#hUtBcfx0XGdOML6E.97

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/uwp/api/windows.web.ui.interop.webviewcontrol

fobrs commented 6 years ago

https://github.com/rjmurillo/webview-samples

apptouch commented 6 years ago

Just starting my ramp up on using Edge over CEF. Any links that point to using the Edge webView in a C++, Win32 app? Thanks!

apptouch commented 6 years ago

Actually, I'm reviewing this now... might be helpful to someone:

https://github.com/rjmurillo/webview-samples/tree/master/WebViewSamples.Win32

fobrs commented 6 years ago

I've converted the win32 cpp WRL sample to cppwinrt: https://github.com/fobrs/WebViewSample.Win32.cppwinrt

tuarua commented 6 years ago

1.7.0 will contain the first beta-grade support for Modern WebView (Edge) The feature set is much lighter than the CEF based view.

There are still many bugs and features missing from Microsoft's offering such as:

On the + side

fobrs commented 6 years ago

You can use WebView.CapturePreviewToStreamAsync() to capture a bitmap of the WebView and get a Stream for it.

Use WebViewControl.Scale to set the zoom.

Use WebView.NavigateToString to display a html string

tuarua commented 6 years ago

@fobrs The first 2 have NOT been implemented yet in the Win32 control. NavigateToString causes a crash.

Please consider this issue is here for me to inform my users what to expect in the upcoming release of my project.

tuarua commented 6 years ago

Investigate new version 4.0.0 to see what additional APIs are available

tuarua commented 6 years ago

Version 1.9.0 will include the following additions:

ArgusMagnus commented 5 years ago

Be careful when using the Edge WebView: https://github.com/windows-toolkit/Microsoft.Toolkit.Win32/issues/83