[libavg-users] Browser Integration

[Alex Harrington]

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
alex at xibo.org.uk 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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