Create simple and performant systems based on Web platform technologies.
An Open Source WebKit port for Linux-based embedded devices designed with flexibility and hardware acceleration in mind, leveraging common 3D graphics APIs for best performance.
The Web Platform is a frequently chosen foundational technology for many reasons, including:
Web Platform technologies are built on standards, they have great longevity
The standards are open, embedded systems can incorporate them without licensing fees or other worries.
Open standards with great longevity allows lots more things to benefit from the same investments
The number of people with the basic skills to build things with web technologies is massive
WPE WebKit is widely adopted by many industries, including digital signage, professional audio, home appliances, set-top-boxes, automotive, and inflight infotainment. Countless devices deployed around the globe are already using WPE WebKit as their web runtime platform, and use is growing rapidly.
Success Story
WPE WebKit brought RDK, a modern, performant web browser, to millions of screens. It enables operators to manage devices and easily customize their UIs and apps and provides analytics to improve the customer experience and drive business results.
Digital signage web rendering players have many advantages and are a trend nowadays. They feature use of HTML for composing the user interface, simple and effortless provisioning and scheduling new contents to the screen from the cloud, a robust environment with an automatic crash recovery system, and more.
Point of Sale
Just as the web helps billions of online users make purchases every day, embedded browsers can serve as the basis for building the point of sale systems used by brick and mortar merchants.
Infotainment Systems
The web’s ability to create interactive interfaces and stream media make embedded browsers an excellent choice for building the infotainment systems in automobiles, airplanes and trains.
Smart TVs and set-top-boxes
Television has long used embedded browsers in many ways, from video playback to creating the guides and interactive menus. The Web, with its natural multimedia-related capabilities, is a natural fit for consuming both traditional TV-based content as well as on demand content from industry-leading streaming services.
Home appliances
Embedded browsers are increasingly used in home appliances of all kinds: From providing temperature information and settings for climate control systems, to browsing recipes and engaging programs on your favorite cooking machine, to controlling the distribution of sound across smart speakers around your home.
Professional video and broadcasting
Graphics overlays are everywhere nowadays in the live video broadcasting industry. Embedded browsers can be used to deliver low-latency, web-augmented video broadcasts expanding the capabilities of traditional systems.
WPE is the official WebKit port for embedded platforms. WPE is uniquely designed for embedded systems in that it doesn’t depend on any user-interface toolkits such as the traditional Cocoa, GTK, etc toolkits.
We’ve been collecting answers to lots of common questions we’ve been asked. If you have questions, you might find a ready answer in the FAQ.
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WPEWebKit is developed by Igalia, an open-source consultancy with a lot of experience working on the Web platform. As the maintainers of this official port of WebKit, Igalia has a great deal of experience with meeting hardware and software challenges in the embedded space and several others. Get in touch!
