StarWeb dev log #3

Finally made a media player!

The fetcher now actually looks at what it downloaded instead of assuming everything’s HTML. It checks the Content-Type header first, falls back to the file extension if the server didn’t send one, and sorts the response into HTML, image, video, or audio. Anything that doesn’t match any of those (a plain .txt file, for instance) just gets rendered as text on the page instead of the browser trying to parse it and displaying nothing. Images and media get pulled down recursively too. The fetcher walks the page for <img>, <video>, <audio>, and <source> tags and fetches each one alongside the page itself, the same way it already did for stylesheets.

Images go through stb_image, decoded from memory into an OpenGL texture. For video and audio tho, I built a small VideoPlayer wrapper around AVFoundation, so playback is currently macOS-only (sorry again, but I didn’t add support for Linux/Windows yet; just wait for next devlog, I promise). Fetched media gets cached to a folder on disk under a hashed filename, since AVFoundation wants an actual file to point at rather than a memory buffer.

resolve_url was improved. It now knows moon:// defaults to 8090 and star:// to 8490, so URLs don’t end up with a redundant :8090 attached onto every link.

@Rupnil sorry man, I ran into issues ;-;