Add support for Chrome Engine about phpdesktop HOT 24 CLOSED

When creating desktop applications, we may not consider an increase of 10 MB to 
avail features that Chrome's engine can expose. Also, it avoids issues 
regarding different versions of internet explorer that might be installed in 
user system.

Issue 2 has been merged into this issue.

Chrome engine will definitely appear in one of next versions, along with IE as 
an option.

Embed Chrome's engine by using Chromium Embedded Framework:
http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/

it will be great using webkit - chrome as main rendering engine,

will wait for those great release :)

Oh man, I really think that 14mb is not an issue, most of today's usb devices 
are over 1 gb, also internet speed is really fast these days, please!!!!!!!! 
Chrome!!

We will use CEF 3 from the Chromium Ebedded Framework.

Btw. just moments ago there was a first release of PHP Desktop
with Internet Explorer engine embedded, go to Downloads or see
the main page as it had a major update.

Next on the list is Chrome engine.

Im waiting it too :)

I'd love this feature for a current project, is there any news of progress or 
when we could expect a release? I'd be very willing to donate if this feature 
was implemented. :)

I'm quite busy for the next 5-6 weeks, after that I plan on making the Chrome
Engine happen.

I just wanted to let you know I also promise to donate once this feature is 
implemented.  It's pretty much the thing that will make this project usable for 
me and I'm super excited for it.  I can't wait!  Thanks for all you do!

Hello Czarek

Is the chrome engine ready to use now ?

MSIE Trident engine is outdated, or so it seems. Modern CSS techniques like 
"display: inline-block" are ignored, and HTML5 tags are not supported for 
styling as Trident doesn't know how to parse CSS against them (ie: nav, header, 
footer, section, etc)

Chromium would be a much better fit and can't wait for the feature to be 
implemented.

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Hey @czarek, curious where your progress is with this feature? I'd be more than 
willing to take a look at the feature set you're envisioning and see if I can 
help in any way.

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It past 1 month and 1 week. Any news?

please stop with the feeling of entitlement already, sponsor the feature if you 
so desperately need it

There hasn't been much progress, I was sick for the last two weeks. I'm also 
starting a new full-time job next week, so it's going to be rush for the next 
few weeks I think.

Dear all,

I found temporary solution, before PHPDesktop will support Chrome Engine.

If someone interesting (it is not best solution but work well):

1. Create main folder of your project, for example "project";
2. Put into php-cgi.exe, php5.dll, php.ini and folder "ext" with needs php 
extensions;
3. Put there next files from node-webkit: icudt.dll, nw.exe, nw.pak, 
nwsnapshot.exe;
4. Create sub folder "www";
5. Put into "www" sub folder all your js, html, php, css files
6. Create runapp.vbs file in "project" folder and insert next script
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Dim objShell
Set objShell = wscript.createobject("wscript.shell")
objShell.Run "taskkill /F /IM php-cgi.exe", 0, TRUE
wscript.Sleep 2000 
objShell.Run "php-cgi.exe -S 127.0.0.1:52005 -t www -c php.ini"
wscript.Sleep 3000 
objShell.Run "nw --url=""http://127.0.0.1:52005"" --no-toolbar", 0, TRUE
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7. Run runapp.vbs file and voila.


Section 2: files can be get from PHPDesktop;
Section 3: files can be get from this url 
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

PS: If you will have question i can explain.

Support for the Chrome engine added in revision a0e859ba4adc.

The binary release should be ready within a few hours.

There is still one thing to do, removing the "View Source" option from the 
mouse context menu. The other options like "Back", "Forward", "Print" could be 
usefull. The context menu can be disabled via javascript. An option in 
settings.json will be added for that in some later release.

PHP Desktop Chrome 31.0 released, go see main project page or go straight to 
Downloads.

There are four distributions available for download:
1) With PHP 5.5.8 minified binaries
2) With PHP 5.5.8 full
3) With PHP 5.4.24 minified binaries
4) With PHP 5.4.24 full

Created the ChromeSettings wiki page.

New option "dpi_aware" added to the settings.json file. See the Settings wiki 
page for more details.

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Project will move to Github. Find this issue at the new address (soon): 
https://github.com/cztomczak/phpdesktop/issues/1