Feature Request: New Browser engine for Player

Feature Requests
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For the original poster (OP) to fill in:

Introduction

The xibo player uses an old browser engine, which is officially outdated (see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/all/internet-explorer-is-it-being-phased-out/eadfd8a8-4c0b-4058-af0f-914159214868). Therefore many webpages can´t be displayed partly or fully - this board is full of reports.
It would be mandatory to switch to a open source / current web rendering solution.

Example open source html renderer: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Gecko

User Story

I´m trying to display a simple icinga2 dashboard, which can´t be displayed with Internet Explorer because Windows with IE and Edge is not supported since SSE (Server Sent Events) are not implemented (see https://github.com/dnsmichi/dashing-icinga2/issues/47#issuecomment-374166481).

For the dev team to fill in:

Status

The current status and the username of the:

  • Reporter
  • Drafter
  • Implementer

Implementation

A broad description of the changes required.

Effected Software

Which parts of Xibo are effected

DB Schema Changes

Any necessary DB Schema Changes

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Thank you for posting!

We have tried a CEF integration before which we found to be very unreliable and crash-prone, and so we hope to release a Player with support for Edge rendering in the future.

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Thanks, but edge rendering would be also a very big problem as microsoft is creating a complete new browser on chromium technology and edge will be discontinued.

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Assuming Microsoft port the controls we’re using to their new version of Edge then in time it will be Chromium based.

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We have edge released in this player now: Xibo for Windows v2-edge R201

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