[Development] Qt for WebAssembly

[Jason H]

> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 at 7:29 AM
> From: "Morten Sørvig" <Morten.Sorvig at qt.io>
> To: "Qt Project Development Mailing-List" <development at qt-project.org>
> Subject: Re: [Development] Qt for WebAssembly
>
> 
> 
> > On 9 Mar 2018, at 19:09, Tim Murison <tim.murison at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd also like to echo and hopefully amplify what Jason H said about
> > qmlweb. IMO, this is the solution that Qt should be embracing and
> > integrating upstream. qmlweb aims to do what Qt has always done, make
> > cross-platform development easy, efficient and indistinguishable from
> > native development.
> 
> 
> I think qmlweb and Qt for wasm are fundamentally different enough
> (reimplementing Qt Quick vs recompiling it for a new platform) that they
> are not mutually exclusive. We could accept either or both upstream,
> 
> It could be interesting to make them API-compatible so that users can
> move between them with minimal effort. For example by providing a “QtQuick.QMLEngine()”
> Javascript API that can be used interchangeably with “QmlWeb.QMLEngine()”.
> 
>   var div = document.getElementById('embed');
>   var engine = new QmlWeb.QMLEngine(div);
>   engine.loadFile('qml/main.qml');
>   engine.start();

Yes, exactly.