jonathandlynch wrote: > Apparently, both WebView (android) and uiwebview (iOS) have > transparent modes. > > Would it be easy for the LC team to implement a transparent mode for > browser widgets, where the background color is transparent, allowing > other objects to show through? > > This would obviate the need for some the processor intensive image > transfers in and out of the widget. > > I know one would have to set the background-color of the body element > to transparent and set a couple of settings in the WebView calls. Is > that all it would take?
I'd guess that it wouldn't be hard to implement, but much harder to implement in a way performant enough for anyone to want to use. :)
I believe the browser widget maintains its own buffer, blitted to screen. This makes it fast, but prevents it from mixing its rendering with LC-native controls.
For mixed rendering it would need to render within the compositing process Mark Waddingham outlined here a while back in answer to Jacque's question about acceleratedRendering. My guess would be that doing so as rapidly as a browser might conceivably update would be computationally expensive.
That's just a guess, though. I'd be happy to be wrong. Integrated rendering of the browser widget would be nice.
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