Embed a web browser into a page

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Carbon Man wrote:

> Hi,
> I need to embed a web browser into a python page. I am coming from the MS
> world where I created an app that all of it's interfaces were actually web
> pages rendered in an Internet Explorer activex control. There was a object
> hook that allowed you to call into the host environment from javascript.
> Basically the host environment would receive the documentComplete event
> and call a method in the document's Javascript passing in an object
> reference. That reference would then be available for calls to be made
> from Javascript back into the host environment.
> I am just starting to explore the Pythonic programming jungle and I was
> wondering if there is a way to do something similar that would work
> cross-platform?
> I guess there is much more complexity in it when you start to go across
> o/s platform boundaries. The common web interface would then be Gecko or
> WebKit? So can someone suggest what would be required to build a
> cross-platform Python app that was capable of browsing HTML files,
> receiving events from the browser, and that allows the embedded page to
> call host Python modules from Javascript via an object reference? Or I am
> asking too much :)

The only thing that might work is Qt + webkit that is used as it's browser.
Everything else is not cross platform.

Diez