[Development] Qt WebChannel 5.5 roadmap: WebEngine, QtWebView

[Milian Wolff]

Hey all,

for Qt 5.4, the new WebChannel module will only be "easily" usable for WebKit 
users. For 5.5 I plan to add WebEngine integration, if Pierre is not beating 
me to it. We will simply copy the QML API, and no changes on the client-side 
HTML should be required, I think.

Then, recently, QtWebView was announced for Android and iOS WebViews. I wonder 
if we can integrate the WebChannel nicely there as well. Instantiating a 
WebChannel internally won't be the problem, nor copying the QML API. But for 
HTML clients, I don't know if one can automatically setup the transport 
mechanism (based on WebSockets), nor whether one can even load the 
qwebchannel.js API via a qrc URL. Can someone working on QtWebView shed some 
light here please? 

Bye

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