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Charlieeeon Cross-platform Python framework for embedding Chromium browser in a desktop app

Some use cases for CEF:

* Embed a web browser control with great HTML5 support (based on Chromium)

* Use it to create a HTML5 based GUI in an application. This can act as a replacement for GUI toolkits like wxWidgets/Qt/Gtk. For native communication between javascript and python use javascript bindings, or run an internal web server and use XMLHttpRequest.

* Render web content off-screen in applications that use custom drawing frameworks. See the Kivy and Panda3D examples.

* Use it for automated testing of existing web applications. Use it for web scraping, or as a web crawler or other kind of internet bots.

Charlieeeon PHP desktop GUI framework with HTML5 Chrome/IE engine

About 40k downloads over the last year, 204 topics on the forum and 145 issues in the tracker so far. So, there is some activity.

Charlieeeon PHP Cross-Platform Desktop GUI Framework

Found this recently. Bindings for Haskell to Chromium Embedded Framework:

* https://github.com/fluffynukeit/bindings-cef3

* https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

Charlieeeon Thrust: Chromium-based cross-platform, cross-language application framework

You could write a browser in assembler. Only time and imagination are your limits.