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We're building a brand new webview that has a native code (Rust) API to the DOM. That way your native extension doesn't have to go through JavaScript at all. Cu

We're building a brand new webview that has a native code (Rust) API to the DOM. That way your native extension doesn't have to go through JavaScript at all. Currently it doesn't have any JS support, but it could be added. https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz/ https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz/

MuffinFlavored 1y ago
How could/would you do "DOM event -> native FFI dlsym-type call"?
- nicoburns 1y ago
  You could either use Dioxus-Native which combines Blitz with Dioxus (a React-like framework but in Rust). Or you could implement the EventHandler trait https://docs.rs/blitz-dom/latest/blitz_dom/trait.EventHandler.html https://docs.rs/blitz-dom/latest/blitz_dom/trait.EventHandle... In either case you will recieve the event as a Rust struct passed to a Rust function. So you could call Rust depdencies directly, and C dependencies would just require Rust bindings.
  - MuffinFlavored 1y ago
    I see. It's a new rendering engine, not "Blink/WebKit/etc.". Am I right that WebKit does not support what you and I are discussing equivalent wise? Passing structs or "binary" events?
    - nicoburns 1y ago
      > I see. It's a new rendering engine, not "Blink/WebKit/etc." Correct > Am I right that WebKit does not support what you and I are discussing equivalent wise? Passing structs or "binary" events? I'm not sure. If I wanted to do this I'd probably look into https://ultralig.ht/ https://ultralig.ht/ which is a commercial fork of webkit. See: https://docs.ultralig.ht/docs/calling-a-c-function-from-js https://docs.ultralig.ht/docs/calling-a-c-function-from-js
      - MuffinFlavored 1y ago
        Great link, thanks. I'm probably being conceited but the fact that some company somewhere thought it was a good idea to add this feature for commercial efforts probably makes me think it's missing from the open source world. Given your knowledge on Dioxus, do you think Dioxus/Tauri/Wry will eventually support something like this? I guess it's kind of niche.
        nicoburns 1y ago
        > Given your knowledge on Dioxus, do you think Dioxus/Tauri/Wry will eventually support something like this? Something webkit based? Almost certainly not from a Dioxus perspective. We may add JavaScript support to Blitz at some point though. I believe Tauri have been looking at a WPE backend which may be able to support these kind of things, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

MuffinFlavored 1y ago

How could/would you do "DOM event -> native FFI dlsym-type call"?

nicoburns 1y ago
You could either use Dioxus-Native which combines Blitz with Dioxus (a React-like framework but in Rust). Or you could implement the EventHandler trait https://docs.rs/blitz-dom/latest/blitz_dom/trait.EventHandler.html https://docs.rs/blitz-dom/latest/blitz_dom/trait.EventHandle... In either case you will recieve the event as a Rust struct passed to a Rust function. So you could call Rust depdencies directly, and C dependencies would just require Rust bindings.
- MuffinFlavored 1y ago
  I see. It's a new rendering engine, not "Blink/WebKit/etc.". Am I right that WebKit does not support what you and I are discussing equivalent wise? Passing structs or "binary" events?
  - nicoburns 1y ago
    > I see. It's a new rendering engine, not "Blink/WebKit/etc." Correct > Am I right that WebKit does not support what you and I are discussing equivalent wise? Passing structs or "binary" events? I'm not sure. If I wanted to do this I'd probably look into https://ultralig.ht/ https://ultralig.ht/ which is a commercial fork of webkit. See: https://docs.ultralig.ht/docs/calling-a-c-function-from-js https://docs.ultralig.ht/docs/calling-a-c-function-from-js
    - MuffinFlavored 1y ago
      Great link, thanks. I'm probably being conceited but the fact that some company somewhere thought it was a good idea to add this feature for commercial efforts probably makes me think it's missing from the open source world. Given your knowledge on Dioxus, do you think Dioxus/Tauri/Wry will eventually support something like this? I guess it's kind of niche.
      - nicoburns 1y ago
        > Given your knowledge on Dioxus, do you think Dioxus/Tauri/Wry will eventually support something like this? Something webkit based? Almost certainly not from a Dioxus perspective. We may add JavaScript support to Blitz at some point though. I believe Tauri have been looking at a WPE backend which may be able to support these kind of things, but I wouldn't hold your breath.