[meta] Minibrowser

[atbrakhi]

First version of minibrowser is here #29976 but there are more improvements we could do. This issue is the todo list for the improvements and new features.

• Make sure we repaint while typing, even if servo is idle
  • done in winit: initial minibrowser #29976
• Fix hit testing for links
  • done in winit: initial minibrowser #29976
• Repainting is weird right now. For example, once we navigate to a new page, you need to do some mouse event for the location bar to reflect the current top-level URL (to trigger egui repaint).
  • done in winit: initial minibrowser #29976
• Decide how to deduplicate clipboard-win 2.2.0 and 4.5.0
  • we can contribute a dependency update to clipboard
  • we can make the winit port drop clipboard in favour of arboard
    • done in Use arboard in servoshell instead of rust-clipboard #30274
• Add a help screen that documents the keyboard shortcuts in Browser::handle_key_from_window
• Make CMD_OR_CONTROL+L focus the location bar when in minibrowser mode
  • done in Cmd or Ctrl+L should focus on location bar in minibrowser mode #30105
• Make return key equivalent to go button when location field is focused
  • done in Make return key equivalent to go button when location field is focused #30126
• Make enter key equivalent to go button when location field is focused
  • needs changes in egui
• CursorMoved events in WR viewport area may result in extra egui/WR updates via EventResponse.repaint?
• servoshell: minibrowser can cause lockups while animating #30312
  • done in servoshell: fix lockups while animating #30322
• servoshell: GL_INVALID_FRAMEBUFFER_OPERATION on macOS during ReadyToPresent #30331
• servoshell: repeated flickering to black while resizing on macOS #30332
• Add buttons to go back and forward
  • done in Minibrowser: Add Back and Forward navigation #30805
• the location sometimes reverts to the old value while loading
  • done in Fix the location url that reverts to the old value while loading #30518
• minibrowser: HiDPI support #30341
  • [NFC] servoshell: fix rust-analyzer and rustfmt breakage #30340
  • [NFC] servoshell: clarify that device_pixels_per_px is an override #30342
  • [NFC] servoshell: fix euclid units associated with winit geometry #30344
  • done in minibrowser: implement HiDPI support #30343
• servoshell: fix unwrap None during RedrawRequested #30360
• Enable Minibrowser by default (also add an option to disable it)
  • done in Enable minibrowser by default but also keep the option to disable it #30338
• Location bar is not handling URL without scheme properly
  • Rename ports/winit package to servoshell #30163
  • Move user input logic into servoshell #30238
  • Handle URL without scheme #30148
• minibrowser: URL bar is still visible for pages that use the Fullscreen API  #30347
• Improve handling of http 204 in location bar of minibrowser #30696

cc @delan

[atbrakhi]

UI locks up when running TWGL Tunnel

Works fine for me. Tested on MacOS

[atbrakhi]

UI locks up when running TWGL Tunnel

Works fine for me. Tested on MacOS

Ah I see what you mean. When TWGL example is running, I had to click on the page area to reproduce.