[Development] Using native webview on OS X

Morten Sørvig Morten.Sorvig at qt.io
Thu Jan 25 13:31:27 CET 2018


> On 23 Jan 2018, at 15:11, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
> 23.01.2018, 17:09, "Morten Sørvig" <morten.sorvig at qt.io>:
>> 
>> The QtWebEngine requirement does seem to run counter to the purpose of the QtWebView module.
>> 
>> It’s not really clear from the history what happened, but I think we can restore the original behavior:
>> 
>> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/217706/
> 
> There was a discussion about run-time plugins in QtWebView, if they were implemented it won't be
> a problem to load and use QtWebEngine backend if it is really needed, and avoid it otherwise
> 

In the end we decided to go with this approach and finalize the plugin patch for dev. The other branches
will be left as-is. In the mean time it's possible is to build QtWebView from source with the above patch
if you want to avoid the QtWebEngine requirement.

Morten


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