Embedded webview

Add support for embedded browser / web view.

Use Case
Xanthar is a graphic designer who is creating graphics for a medical imaging company. He’s created a plugin that pulls in x-rays he receives, adds a layer of vector graphics over them and then exports the artboard to SVG in an HTML page on the local intranet.

He has automated some of it but when the doctor wants to see the export they have to open a browser, copy a link from the plugin and paste that link into the browser.

Xanthar found the new web view API and is able to open the exported HTML page right in XD.

Use Case
Lily is a botanist, computer scientist and teacher from India that is using XD to create artificial flowers in vector format from her growth branching algorithm.

She released her first plugin one month ago and her students are starting to use it but have been emailing her on how to use it. She decides to write instructions for her users in Word and exports it to HTML. She put the instructions online but the internet goes down multiple times a day so she wants to include the web page with her plugin.

She finds out about the web view and when her users click on the help icon the help page loads right in her plugin.

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