[Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

[Konstantin Tokarev]

21.06.2019, 16:40, "Bastiaan Veelo" <bastiaan at veelo.net>:
> On 21/06/2019 14:57, Volker Hilsheimer wrote:
>>  I’m not Jarek, but I recall that Eddy made a suggestion [1] which I
>>  think has been prematurely dismissed or at least not been discussed
>>  sufficiently, which is:
>>
>>  * move the Qt Assistant functionality for searching and qch support
>>  into a locally executed HTTP server
>>  * use any proper webbrowser to display the help that this web service
>>  serves
>>
>>  What would be arguments against such a solution?
>>
>>  Volker
>>
>>  [1]
>>  https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2019-May/036028.html
>
> In our application, we already provide our manual in three different
> formats, generated from the same source (by doxygen): qhc/Assistant, PDF
> and HTML served from our company website. The great advantage of qhc and
> Assistant is that the content in Assistant can be easily and efficiently
> synchronised by the click of some specific "Help" button in the UI to
> bring up content specific to the context of that button, without
> creating new tabs in your web browser. The most important feature of
> Assistant, though, is its index and search functionality. Will
> qthttpserver be able to do that, scrolling to the right position and
> highlighting the indexed word?

This is doable by using URLs with anchors and using clever JS-based routing
inside HTML help page

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Regards,
Konstantin