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Cannot run WebGL content on WebView

I am trying to open a webpage with WebGL content from wxPython WebView. The engine used by WebView, webkit, has WebGL support.
How can I render the the WebGL content inside WebView?

The complete code used by me: 

import wx
import wx.html2


class MyBrowser(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwds):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwds)
        sizer = wx.BoxSizer(wx.VERTICAL)
        self.browser = wx.html2.WebView.New(self)
        sizer.Add(self.browser, 1, wx.EXPAND, 10)
        self.SetSizer(sizer)
        self.Maximize()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = wx.App()
    dialog = MyBrowser(None, -1)
    dialog.browser.LoadURL("https://get.webgl.org/")
    dialog.Show()
    app.MainLoop()

gives the below screen enter image description here

Also, opening https://whatsmybrowser.org from the WebView identifies the browser as Safari (while using Ubuntu). See full description here: https://whatsmybrowser.org/b/X43YSDV.

Solution

  • I could not find support for webGL inside wxpython webview.
    My solution was to use cefpython. cefpython embeds full chromium browser inside python applications. Here's an example of wxpython using cefpython: https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython/blob/master/examples/wxpython.py.