Hey All,

I have fixed a couple of bugs and created a google code project for the
sources:

http://code.google.com/p/browsernode/

Thanks,

Nick

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Nick Hebner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> I have been working on this project with Alex, and am proud to say that I
> have been successful in getting it working. The plugin is powered by the
> chromium port of the webkit rendering engine via the awesomium browser
> embedding library.
>
> Features:
>  - dynamic browser node creation
>  - browser rendering
>  - mouse event injection
>  - python accessible methods for changing url, zoom in/out, refresh
>  - python callbacks for loading begin/end, title set, tooltip set, etc.
>  - flash support
>
> Known Issues:
>  - currently Linux only (only tested with Ubuntu 9.04 so far)
>  - no keyboard input
>  - history does not work properly
>
> The code can be found here:
> http://nickhebner.com/libavg/browsernode/awesomium-1.08.tar.bz2
> http://nickhebner.com/libavg/browsernode/browsernode-0.1.tar.bz2
>
> I would consider the code to be alpha quality at this point as it has not
> really been played with by anyone else at this point. If you are interested
> in testing it out, I would greatly appreciate any feedback you might have.
>
> The build process is rather involved as it requires you to build chromium,
> awesomium, and the browser plugin (in that order). See the chromium wiki and
> included readmes for full build instructions.
>
> Please let me know if you have any other questions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick Hebner
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Alex Harrington <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> You may remember I've been working on a digital signage player for the
>> Xibo project using libavg. It's been going well and we now have a few
>> players in general circulation using the code.
>>
>> We're at the point now where it would be really useful to be able to
>> render HTML and external webpages. I've mentioned before that we might
>> be able to come up with some money to support developing a plugin for
>> libavg to do this.
>>
>> Is there a libavg developer interested in doing that work? If so, could
>> they give me some idea of the amount of work that will take and ideally
>> what kind of money they'd need to undertake it? (privately off-list to
>> [email protected] if you'd prefer).
>>
>> My feature wishlist would be:
>> Cross-platform (Linux/Mac/Windows)
>> "Live" webpage rendering so that browser plugins can be used to show
>> content libavg isn't able to - eg streaming video.
>> Ability to make the background of the browser transparent so that it can
>> be composited like any other node.
>> Ideally some method for manipulating the DOM inside the browser from
>> python.
>> Ideally some method for talking to Javascript running inside the browser
>> from python.
>>
>> Not too fussed if it's Geko or webkit based, but speed is important to
>> us.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
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