[Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

[Bastiaan Veelo]

On 21/06/2019 15:47, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>
> 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
>
But then Doxygen must be extended to generate that cleverness, right?