Viewfinder VS electron-as-browser

Converts a document to a picture of its pages. View a document from the internet without downloading or running it on your machine, and without needing a word processor, spreadsheet app, or PDF viewer installed. This provides content disarm and reconstruction, or CDR. Also known as p2., this code is deployed commercially by Dosyago in their ViewFinder cloud browser product.

This work is based on this project on GitHub:

https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder

The version used in the above live demo has many advanced features (as you can see in the comparison[0]), including, Flash now as well. Thanks to the wonderful Ruffle Flash emulator project, written in Rust[1]

[0]: https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/blob/boss/README.md#vf-pr...

[1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

This includes a live demo on the same page. Just it "Try it now", and it will boot up a component for you to play with. I've made the Home page a list of class Adobe Flash games, that the Flash emulator project Ruffle uses for tests.

I use Ruffle to provide the flash content. It's pretty cool.

Everything should work, but you may have some issues on older browsers. It will not work without JavaScript enabled.

The browser component is based on this project:

https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder

but contains a bunch of enhancements, such as better streaming (using WebRTC and various tricks), Flash, and many other improvements.

If you see an issue feel free to report it to the above repo, preferably as a discussion, which just seems cooler and more lightweight.

This was all originally created as a delivery layer for a web-scraping app that was supposed to work on mobile, but became a break-out product in its own right...Break-out as in factored-out :). You can build lots of different stuff with it.[0]

The Ruffle integration functions essentially the same way as the Ruffle browser extension, so it's basically incorporating an "extension" even tho it's running Chrome headless. There's also paid options if you need that.

[0]: https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder#applications

Congratulations on your fantastic ViewFinder! I am using it on my old iPhone to access some modern webpages, see it in action. If only Whatsapp Web worked!

Ask me whatever you want. We can chat here, or go there:

https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/discussions

or you can mail me: [email protected] ! :)

Another option is to create and electron app which will open your site, for tabs you can use this: https://github.com/brrd/electron-tabs or maybe look into this one https://github.com/hulufei/electron-as-browser modify a bit, remove address bar and use it.

I mean browser tabs. I used this https://github.com/hulufei/electron-as-browser just converted it to vue it kind of works now but it took a while and I still working on tabs ui so it would work like chrome with drag rearrange then figure out how to persist them after shutdown.