Announcing JUCE 6

[upheaver]

Seems current implementation of WebView for Windows will not be able to serve a locally hosted GUI, at least not through http + localhost, see this for details:

`juce6` technical preview branch

I tested the juce6 by building a demo app which also includes a local http server for serving the GUI. Unfortunately the UWP based Webview is not a good fit for loading an html based GUI served from localhost as UWP dissalows loopback. Webview pointed at localhost will simply render a blank screen. While there is a way to disable this limitation in development, there’s nothing that can be done in production which does not break the sandbox security model. // This enables Webview load from loca…

Due to loopback limitation in Edge-based WebView cannot be used even as a fallback to Chrome based WebView2, so it would be great if it was skipped altogether in favor of WebView2, or maybe another cross platform solution altogether (like https://ultralig.ht).

Another approach would be to patch the WebBrowser component code to allow loading HTML content from string, and injecting / running javascript functions on the already loaded page.