[Development] Make Qt WebView a Qt Add-on

[Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt]

On 06/22/2015 12:46 PM, Stromme Christian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Qt WebView module has been a tech preview for 5.4 and is still going to be a tech preview for 5.5, but
> for 5.6 we would like to propose that it gets upgraded to an official Qt add-on. Making the module an add-on,
> and also making it part of the normal release infrastructure, should hopefully improve the current (manual)
> release and testing process.
>
> For those not familiar with Qt WebView, the modules goal is to provide a more lightweight WebView API for application
> developers that don’t need to, or are unable to ship a whole web engine with their application.
> Currently Qt WebView provides a Qml only API (a subset of the WebEngineView APIs) and has implementations for
> Android, iOS and OS X. And besides Windows Phone/RT, which is still on the wish list, other desktop platforms should
> already be supported through Qt WebEngine.

+1

-- Eskil