As soon as a display is to be used in an embedded device such as our DHMI, the question of the right graphics framework arises. As there are a wide variety of frameworks, we have compared three relevant examples here and highlighted the advantages and disadvantages.
WPEWebkit is a port of the Webkit browser engine used by Safari and specialized for embedded Linux. Cog is a lightweight Lanucher for WPEWebkit and comes with WPEWebkit. Chromium, on the other hand, is the open-source version of Google Chrome and almost all popular browsers such as Edge, Opera and Brave use Chromium as their base. In the following, we would like to highlight some of the advantages and disadvantages of the two web browsers for embedded systems.