is there a WebView component for Compose for Web? ...

# compose-web

[Daniele B]

is there a WebView component for Compose for Web?
with "WebView" I mean a sandboxed browser, similar to what is available on Android and iOS, where you can also intercept events such as the page finished loading

[Chrimaeon]

You are in a browser 😅 just intercept the window.navigator events

[Daniele B]

With mobile webviews you can also run Javascript to click on buttons and elements.
You cannot do that in an iframe, if the page domain is different.
I wonder if Compose is planning to add such WebView sandboxed component.

[Chrimaeon]

I guess that would be highly inefficient to run a browser engine inside an browser. 🤔 supposedly that needs to be running as JavaScript or wasm

[Daniele B]

I don't think a browser engine would need to be shipped inside Compose. There might be a way to reuse the browser's engine.

[Chrimaeon]

Not really - compose is just an UI “framework”. In the end it just renders pixels on a canvas.

[Chrimaeon]

Or in the case of compose html interacts with the DOM tree

[Daniele B]

I guess it would be possible to embed a sandboxed browser instance inside the canvas? But I am not an expert in this domain. That's why I am asking.

[Chrimaeon]

Not really https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API

[andylamax]

i am not fully sure, but if I had a problem like yours, I'd try looking into Iframe, intercepting the navigator, or maybe using shadowRoot and web components to kind of scope/emulate your WebView

[Daniele B]

@andylamax let's say you want to programmatically click on a SEARCH button in a website which has a different domain. In a mobile WebView you can do that, but in an iFrame you can't.

[andylamax]

Blocked by CORS??

[Daniele B]

Yeah

[louiscad]

A browser extension might be the way to do it