<webview> from the Chrome Apps platform

[André Schultz]

Hi all,

I know that January 2025 has been a date for a while, but wanted to ask about any details regarding the deprecation of the webview element.

Vivaldi, the browser, where I work as a developer, are using webviews in a web-ui to display tabs and panels, still. So we are in a bit of a hurry to act.

Does anyone have any roadmaps more detailed than "until at least Jan 2025"? I guess we should assume a hard landing? Are there ongoing work where removal is done or planned?

Our initial plan;

We're using an "app-window" with one views::WebView showing everything. The plan is to have a views::WebView for the ui, and one per visible tab and panel. Making a mask for the ui-webview and make sure the ui is painted on top through GetChildViewsInPaintOrder.

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[Reilly Grant]

I believe that Chrome also uses <webview> on WebUI pages so I wouldn't worry about it going away when support for Chrome Apps is removed.  

Reilly Grant | Software Engineer | rei...@chromium.org | Google Chrome

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[Kevin McNee]

Right, <webview> is used in contexts other than Chrome Apps. We have no plans to remove it.

On Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 1:13:40 p.m. UTC-4 Reilly Grant wrote:

I believe that Chrome also uses <webview> on WebUI pages so I wouldn't worry about it going away when support for Chrome Apps is removed.  

Reilly Grant | Software Engineer | rei...@chromium.org | Google Chrome

On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 8:22 AM André Schultz <andres...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I know that January 2025 has been a date for a while, but wanted to ask about any details regarding the deprecation of the webview element.

Vivaldi, the browser, where I work as a developer, are using webviews in a web-ui to display tabs and panels, still. So we are in a bit of a hurry to act.

Does anyone have any roadmaps more detailed than "until at least Jan 2025"? I guess we should assume a hard landing? Are there ongoing work where removal is done or planned?

Our initial plan;

We're using an "app-window" with one views::WebView showing everything. The plan is to have a views::WebView for the ui, and one per visible tab and panel. Making a mask for the ui-webview and make sure the ui is painted on top through GetChildViewsInPaintOrder.

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[André Schultz]

On Wednesday 8. May 2024 18:12:46 (+02:00), Kevin McNee wrote:

Right, <webview> is used in contexts other than Chrome Apps. We have no plans to remove it.

That is good news. Thanks for clarifying.

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