When trying to access www.unrealengine.com using UE4’s Web Browser widget:
…plus I’m sure many other problems.
Epic, can we please get an update/fix to the Web Browser??
I was under the impression that the feature came in from a user who creared it and pushed it, but it has been discontinued. I remeber reading something similar on it.
The problem is probably whatever engine is currently in vogue for html. Trident, ktml, gecko, presto. Etc.
On top of that the website makes heavy use of Javascript. And you would probably need an open ssl protocol to have the account login work.
the base idea behind it was to allow users to use HTML+css (pre flex I believe) to create quick informational pages, books, and other gameplay items.
Think of it this way. If you wanted to recreate GTA5’s phone browser in widget you would spend about a week or more. Making updates would take forever (on the plus side buy buttons would be easier…)
if you allow for HTML/CSS the same process takes a professional about a day if even. Adding stuff becomes trivial. And you can also have it work Online by publishing the pages to a website (except the buy buttons, that I’m not sure).
If epic were to support it/updare it, that would be great. However I honestly doubt it since the use of the feature is so niche…
We’d second the request for a more functional browser. I’d have expected it to be able to open Microsoft Office online and display a PPT for example however that doesn’t work with the stock Epic browser plugin. I don’t expect this to be needed for gaming use case however in Enterprise this would be very useful functionality.
I tried using the webbrowser plugin years ago and even back then it had issues like looking washed out and not showing colors properly.
Odd how it’s been neglected as you’d think it would be a really useful to have a working browser with widgets for games and apps that need to show web content. Really deserves a proper update and made more functional for UE5.
I agree, it has a lot of potential, and right now I’m attempting to use it to code UI in Javascript/CSS/HTML instead of UMG. It’s been “experimental” since 4.10…is it just abandoned like Light Propagation Volumes and others?
Politely bumping this, just to add my voice: it would be amazing to have a working up to date UMG browser.
I’m currently making a bit of research to understand what it would take to make my own cef based browser, but it’s very frightening at the moment.
Now that UE4 is opening to web technos for enterprises with a nice rest api, etc, it would certainly be the right moment to propose a state of the art web browser widget in umg 
Cheers
Cedric
It’s been some time but does anyone know any good alternative browsers especially ones that work well with video content?
I would really like to know why this feature is being ignored.
did you ever find any answers for this?