WPEWebKit bindings for Saffron, allowing you to embed webview widgets into any Saffron app with just a few lines of C.
- Built with: C, SDL3, WPEWebKit, GStreamer, EGL
- Status: Completed - in active development
Features
- Full WebKit browser engine embedded into Saffron
- Supports Wayland, X11, and even runs in a TTY via SDL3's kmsdrm driver
- Full audio playback via GStreamer
- WebGL, HTML5 multimedia, and many other web APIs via WebKit
Why I built it
When I was building Saffron, I thought it'd be really cool to rewrite cinnamon-browser with it once it was stable. The issue was, it's a custom UI framework, how does one put a browser in it? The answer: just write your own bindings! It can't be that hard... right? Right???? Right...
This took up way too much time and effort than I thought it would.
Notes
While Saffron itself is cross-platform, I cannot guarantee that SFWK will work across platforms because WPEWebKit, the library it is based on, is very much Linux-only. I am also yet to write documentation, but I am currently delaying that until Saffron itself has a stable API, because SFWK is subject to change based on what happens in Saffron's codebase.