This is intended to be a python wrapper around common web browser controls, making it easier to write html-based user interfaces on desktop systems.
The idea is you specify what features you need, e.g:
- transparency
- javascript
- screenshots
- ability to directly set html
- etc...
And then it locates the best available browser for your needs and gives you back a controllable object.
- by specific browser name
- by browser family (aka engine)
- by feature, including:
- canRunJS
- canDoFullscreen (useful for things like screensavers)
- canSetHtml
- canDoHeadless
- canDoMouse
- canDoKeyboard
- canEditDom
- canGetScreenshot
- canEmbed (as a control in another window)
- canDoTransparent
- Browsers with an ActiveX control (probably just InternetExplorer and Edge are that crazy)
- wxWebView Control
- QTWebkit Control
- GTKWebkit Control
- gtkmozembed Control (Mozilla)
- full standalone browsers including:
- firefox
- palemoon
- internet explorer
- microsoft edge
- google chrome
- and will also try the "default browser" whatever that happens to be
- wxWebView: doing great!
- Stand-alone browsers: works fine, at least on windows (though may never have as many features as embedded ones)
- Webkit GTK: Written but untested due to gtk install issues
- Webkit QT: Written but only marginally tested. As an added bonus, should allow you to take screenshots.
- GTK Mozilla Embedded: Written but untested due to gtk install issues
- Registered ActiveX browser components: Seems to work but has a crash, so disabled.
- Supposedly there is a mozilla component called "HulaHop", but no web presence, so assumed to be abandoned??