Alt-browser Flow breezes through web tests, but still far from a daily driver

Alternative browser Flow now passes 90 percent of web-platform-tests. The browser currently runs on the Raspberry Pi – we ran a preview of version 7.0.1 on a Pi 500 – but developer Piers Wombwell told El Reg that plans are afoot to dust off the iOS port: "I've been entirely focused on 90 percent, and it doesn't build anymore …

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Is it embeddable?

There seems to be quite a few web browsers sprouting up. Hopefully it will lead to good things.

What I'd really like to see is a nice embeddable browser that isn't Chromium based, so I could use it as a presentation layer in a C# project. I previously used GeckoFX (Firefox), which I found quite nice if a little complicated to set up on Windows, but I failed miserably to get it running on Linux.

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Re: Is it embeddable?

Have you ever looked at the Servo engine? It's not 100% (or probably even 90%) compliant yet but it's making progress. It's a spin-off from Mozilla's Servo project to create a new engine from scratch written in Rust and is nowadays maintained by the Linux Foundation Europe.

I'm personally looking forward to the Servo integration with Tauri so one could create an alternative to Electron without any Google components.

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Re: Is it embeddable?

I haven't, but I'll take a look, thanks. I wouldn't need 100% compatible, just something I can use as a GUI layer over a C# application and pass events between them.

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Re: Is it embeddable?

Intriguing, thanks for mentioning Servo; I hadn't heard of it.

Like OP, I have been searching for a decent embeddable browser engine for C# projects. Firefox works well but is tricky to set up; webview2 is, well, Edge, and I hate myself for using it; and the less said about the time I used IE in a winforms project, the better.

Documentation on how to use Servo from within managed C# code is scarce; my google-fu is clearly not good enough to track it down, and Google's endearing habit of randomly dropping search terms ("Results missing 'C#'. Click here to include the $#%@! search term that you expressly specified as a search term") hasn't improved my current mood.