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In this bug: 232501 – Browser#computeSize(..) does not compute size https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=232501 It was outlined that computeSize(..) doesn't retrieve the size necessary to render the inner HTML content. However, implementing this api has some issues: - HTML by design doesn't actually specify it's size, so we can't read the size based on raw html text. HTML is designed so that it can fit onto different types of screens (mobile, desktop, half-sized windows etc..). - I hunted around webkit2 api and could not find any native api that retrieves the inner height/width of the inner html. - One way we found to get this done is to wait until the page is loaded and then retrieve some properties by executing javascript: document.body.scrollWidth document.body.scrollHeight As per commit: https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/121346/4/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet372.java The problem with this approach is that it only works after the page is loaded, where as regular swt/widget api dictates that we need to know the size when the shell is being laid out. So while it works in a particular use case, it's not universal enough to adopt as api. Another problem is that this doesn't work when javascript execution is disabled on the Browser widget. So having api that conditionally works when javascript is a bit flaky. It would be nice to have this sort of API, but I can't think of an implementation that would result in a stable behavior across platforms with the current available API's. So for the time being, leaving as an open Enhancement request. ~Suggestions are welcome.
