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Edge-based WebView2 - Details please #1170

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Two things are needed if you want to use the Edge WebView2 component for StageWebView:

  1. the application descriptor file update:
<windows>
  <UseWebView2>true</UseWebView2>
</windows>
  1. the WebView2 Runtime needs to exist on the target computer:
    https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/#download-section

That's basically it... we're still going through some of the test cases, and have spotted a couple of minor things like the order of events (navigation complete vs page complete) that are different between the two variants. Plus we've not yet added the draw-to-bitmapdata functionality - not sure if anyone actually uses that..?!

Regarding the WebView2 Runtime dependenc…

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