Let’s be honest here - this probably isn’t possible. But if it were, it would make my life a whole lot easier, so I’m gonna go out on a limb and ask anyway:
Is there any way to open a web page (in whatever the user has set as their default browser) from a standalone Unity application over the application, without minimizing the standalone Unity app? In other words, from the application, open a window, allow the user do something, then when the window closes they’re pulled back into the application?
I know there are ways of rendering web pages in Unity itself with plugins, but the last time I looked they were either platform specific, lacking in what is supported (e.g. no javascript), under development (“Coming soon!” since 2010), etc. So hey, if you have ideas there, I’m all ears too.
After some research, as I suspected, this doesn’t seem to be possible. This is a system limitation with fullscreen apps, so nothing Unity can do about it.
There are, however, several solutions for rendering web pages directly within Unity - so far, we’ve settled on either Awesomium or Coherent. Hopefully this should achieve the same effect.
