Web Browser Pygame Plug-in?

[Shane Hathaway]

Gregory Piñero wrote:
> I was just idley curious on what it would take to make a web plug-in
> for Pygame.  I'm picturing it working the way my browser currently
> shows flash games.  Is such an idea even possible?  Has anyone
> attempted this?

I once played with a similar idea.  Yes, it's possible, although
platform differences make the idea non-trivial.

Specifically, I ran into difficulty when I discovered that it's not easy
on Linux to load a dynamic library (such as libpython.so) which in turn
loads other dynamic libraries (such as native Python modules), since the
library search path is not modifiable at runtime.  A possible workaround
is to launch a separate process which projects into the browser window.

I don't know what surprises may pop up on other platforms.

Shane