The main thread in the WebContent process is often busy with layout and
running JavaScript. This can cause audio to sound jittery and crack. To
avoid this behavior, we now drive audio on a secondary thread.
Note: Browser on Serenity uses AudioServer, the connection for which is
already handled on a secondary thread within LibAudio. So this only
applies to Lagom.
Rather than using LibThreading, our hands are tied to QThread for now.
Internally, the Qt media objects use a QTimer, which is forbidden from
running on a thread that is not a QThread (the debug console is spammed
with messages pointing this out). Ideally, in the future AudioServer
will be able to run for non-Serenity platforms, and most of this can be
aligned with the Serenity implementation.
This creates (and installs upon WebContent startup) a platform plugin to
play audio data.
On Serenity, we use AudioServer to play audio over IPC. Unfortunately,
AudioServer is currently coupled with Serenity's audio devices, and thus
cannot be used in Ladybird on Lagom. Instead, we use a Qt audio device
to play the audio, which requires the Qt multimedia package.
While we use Qt to play the audio, note that we can still use LibAudio
to decode the audio data and retrieve samples - we simply send Qt the
raw PCM signals.
The WebContent process behaves a bit awkwardly on macOS. When we launch
the process, we have to create a QGuiApplication to access system fonts.
But on macOS, doing so creates an entry in the Dock, and also causes the
WebContent to be focused. So if you enter cmd+Q without first focusing
the Ladybird GUI, WebContent is closed, while the Ladybird process keeps
running.
Things such as timers and notifiers aren't specific to one instance of
Core::EventLoop, so let's not tie them down to EventLoopImplementation.
Instead, move those APIs + signals & a few other things to a new
EventLoopManager interface. EventLoopManager also knows how to create a
new EventLoopImplementation object.
Now that the Core::EventLoop is driven by a QEventLoop in Ladybird,
we don't need to patch LibWeb with Web::Platform plugins.
This patch removes EventLoopPluginQt and TimerQt.
Note that we can't just replace the Web::Platform abstractions with
LibCore stuff immediately, since the Web::Platform APIs use
JS::SafeFunction for callbacks.
This patch adds EventLoopImplementationQt which is a full replacement
for the Core::EventLoopImplementationUnix that uses Qt's event loop
as a backend instead.
This means that Core::Timer, Core::Notifier, and Core::Event delivery
are all driven by Qt primitives in the Ladybird UI and WC processes.
Not a single client of this API actually used the event mask feature to
listen for readability AND writability.
Let's simplify the API and have only one hook: on_activation.
We never clear content filters on either end of the Browser-WebContent
IPC connection. So when the filters change, we re-append all filters to
the Vector holding them. This incidentally makes it impossible to remove
a filter.
Change both sides to clear their filter lists when receiving a new set
of filters.
Currently, on Serenity, we connect to WebDriver from the browser-side of
the WebContent connection for both Browser and headless-browser.
On Lagom, we connect from within the WebContent process itself, signaled
by a command line flag.
This patch changes Lagom browsers to connect to WebDriver the same way
that Serenity browsers do. This will ensure we can do other initializers
in the same order across all platforms and browsers.
This allows us to use standard Serenity IPC infrastructure rather than
manually creating FD-passing sockets. This also lets us use Serenity's
WebDriver Session class, removing the copy previously used in Ladybird.
This ensures any changes to Session in the future will be picked up by
Ladybird for free.
The WebDriver will pass the --webdriver-fd-passing-socket command line
option when it launches Ladybird. Forward this flag onto the WebContent
process, where it will create the WebDriverConnection for IPC.
Rather than needing to set another environment variable for WebDriver's
passing socket, let's forward these FDs by command line. This also moves
the creation of the WebContent connection to a helper function so that
the WebDriver connection can re-use it.
- Add Qt::Core, Qt::Gui, LibGfx, LibIPC, and LibJS to the ladybird
target, remove LibGL, LibSoftGPU, and LibWebSocket
- Add LibJS to the WebContent target, remove LibWebView
- Order them properly :^)
Regressed in https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/15746.
Fixes#108.
Always call platform_init after there's a QApplication, because in the
installed configuration that's how we find the resources.
Try QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath() after looking in ./WebContent
for the WebContent process. In an installed configuration, ladybird and
WebContent will both be in $PREFIX/bin.
Add install rules for WebContent and its linked libraries, for if they
ever differ from ladybird's.
This patch brings over the WebContent process over from SerenityOS
to Ladybird, along with a new WebContentView widget that renders
web content in a separate process.
There's a lot of jank and FIXME material here, notably I had to re-add
manually pumped Core::EventLoop instances on both sides, in order to get
the IPC protocol running. This introduces a lot of latency and we should
work towards replacing those loops with improved abstractions.
The WebContent process is built separately here (not part of Lagom) and
we provide our own main.cpp for it. Like everything, this can be better
architected, it's just a starting point. :^)
