[Development] Qt WebEngine

[Alexis Menard]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Jiang Jiang <gzjjgod at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Alexis Menard <alexis at webkit.org> wrote:
>
>> Qt integration will be on top of the Content Shell and this single
>> process mode needs to work because Google needs it for their Android
>> WebView.
>>
>
> Alexis, I think you meant "Content API"  here, not Content Shell, right?
>

Yes sorry, my bad. I meant the Content API.


>
> I didn't work on Android (I now work for Opera on the Mac platform
> mostly), and not quite familiar with the single process support status, but
> I have heard it getting broken from time to time and usually being used as
> a test / diagnose tool, instead of officially supported as a process model.
> (In Opera for instance we try not to break single process mode but no one
> is really actively developing for it or count on it.) Maybe it worked well
> enough for content module? Do you have any further information about that?
> (Proving that Qt WebEngine can safely use single process mode on platforms
> that requires it.)
>

Well talking with the people working on the Android WebView they decided to
opt for the single process approach so at least up until the content API it
needs to work. I'm not involved in the WebView work but you should clarify
with them.


>
> - Jiang
>
>


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Alexis Menard
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