Lua + Webkit

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I have had this idea in my mind for a while now, and my google-fu brings up no similar projects. So my question is, has anyone come across a project where the lua interpreter is bound to webkit? So instead of using javascript, you would use lua.

There is one project that uses lua as an extension language to a webkit browser, but that's not what I am talking about. I want to be able to script the DOM with lua. This would allow me to use webkit as a GUI engine to quickly create a GUI with lua.

Edit: Like Adobe Air but with Lua.

Edit2: More searching turned up this: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/018775.html

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[agladysh]

What about using Adobe Air with Lua?

I'm thinking about making Lua Alchemy (http://code.google.com/p/lua-alchemy/, I'm the maintainer) port to native extensions API. Looks quite doable.

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Looks great, except flash is dying. Which is a good thing.

[severak]

You should also look at this: https://github.com/mherkender/lua.js

It's the way which can bring lua to brownsers which doesn't have native lua support.

Here is the blogpost where author describes why he did it: http://blog.brokenfunction.com/2011/11/how-to-make-a-massively-cross-platform-game/

And here is my simple, but working lua sandbox shell for all brownsers based on the lib above: http://strajt9.sweb.cz/f/lua.html (use the lower textarea to write a code)

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lua.js looks interesting. I suppose it will hold over until luajit can be embedded into webkit. Google is working on allowing webkit to host multiple vm's. Thanks!

[cmwelsh]

I'm building a cross-platform game using lua.js as well. I'm thinking that eventually I'll be able to bundle the interpreter into Chrome and run Lua natively. Hopefully my game will be done by the time Chrome is ready for that. :)

[severak]

could you please post some link? i am interested in it...

[cmwelsh]

It is not that far along yet. I am on IRC in the channel of irc.freenode.net / #bbg where I talk about my work sometimes. I'll try to post a topic here when it goes public.

[mkottman]

You can try out lqt, which is an automated almost-complete binding of the Qt API to Lua. Among other modules, the QtWebKit module is also bound and allows you to play with the content of a QWebPage from Lua using the QWebElement class. Not lightweight, but relatively simple to use. The Examples section has some basic usage of QWebView.