feat: replace BrowserView with WebContentsView (#40759)

* feat: replace BrowserView with WebContentsView

Co-authored-by: Jeremy Rose <jeremya@chromium.org>

* Update appveyor.yml

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Co-authored-by: trop[bot] <37223003+trop[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jeremy Rose <jeremya@chromium.org>

BUILD.gn

@@ -693,13 +693,6 @@ source_set("electron_lib") {
     ]
   }
 
-  if (enable_views_api) {
-    sources += [
-      "shell/browser/api/views/electron_api_image_view.cc",
-      "shell/browser/api/views/electron_api_image_view.h",
-    ]
-  }
-
   if (enable_printing) {
     sources += [
       "shell/browser/printing/print_view_manager_electron.cc",

build/webpack/webpack.config.base.js

@@ -53,12 +53,6 @@ module.exports = ({
 
     const ignoredModules = [];
 
-    if (defines.ENABLE_VIEWS_API === 'false') {
-      ignoredModules.push(
-        '@electron/internal/browser/api/views/image-view.js'
-      );
-    }
-
     const plugins = [];
 
     if (onlyPrintingGraph) {

buildflags/BUILD.gn

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ buildflag_header("buildflags") {
   header = "buildflags.h"
 
   flags = [
-    "ENABLE_VIEWS_API=$enable_views_api",
     "ENABLE_PDF_VIEWER=$enable_pdf_viewer",
     "ENABLE_ELECTRON_EXTENSIONS=$enable_electron_extensions",
     "ENABLE_BUILTIN_SPELLCHECKER=$enable_builtin_spellchecker",

buildflags/buildflags.gni

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 # found in the LICENSE file.
 
 declare_args() {
-  enable_views_api = true
-
   enable_pdf_viewer = true
 
   # Provide a fake location provider for mocking

docs/README.md

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ These individual tutorials expand on topics discussed in the guide above.
 
 * [app](api/app.md)
 * [autoUpdater](api/auto-updater.md)
-* [BrowserView](api/browser-view.md)
+* [BaseWindow](api/base-window.md)
 * [BrowserWindow](api/browser-window.md)
 * [contentTracing](api/content-tracing.md)
 * [desktopCapturer](api/desktop-capturer.md)
@@ -134,8 +134,10 @@ These individual tutorials expand on topics discussed in the guide above.
 * [TouchBar](api/touch-bar.md)
 * [Tray](api/tray.md)
 * [utilityProcess](api/utility-process.md)
+* [View](api/view.md)
 * [webContents](api/web-contents.md)
 * [webFrameMain](api/web-frame-main.md)
+* [WebContentsView](api/web-contents-view.md)
 
 ### Modules for the Renderer Process (Web Page):