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MS Edge backend for WebView

[Edge Vippi2] Last night’s snapshot build added support for using Microsoft’s Edge browser (the new Chromium version) for the backend of wx.html2.WebView (on Windows only). It requires that a recent version of Edge is installed on the PC. I’ve had troubles getting it to work with the latest official release version, but it works very well with the Edge from the Beta Channel. (Currently version 86.0.622.43) Take a look at the HTML2_Webview sample in the demo for how to check what backends are av…

Works for me. But I’m having some issues:

MS Edge backend fails in Notebook (other than first page)

Hi Robin, I’m still a new user apparently, so I had to create a new topic. I have some example code illustrating my issue described in this topic. It turns out the issue happens when using Edge in Notebook pages other than the first. In my code below, if you chagne the backend to IE, it works fine. I’ve also tried combinations where there is only one webview, and that fails with Edge if it is not in the first Notebook page. Windows7 Edge Version 87.0.664.30 (Official build) beta (64-bit) w…