[Development] HTML5/CSS vs Qt QML and QtCreator / Assistant

[André Pönitz]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:25:27AM +0000, Jedrzej Nowacki wrote:
> On Friday, June 28, 2019 11:32:43 AM CEST Cristian Adam wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Some of you might have been familiar with white papers such as Qt QML v
> > HTML5 – a practical
> > comparison<http://dforeman.cs.binghamton.edu/~foreman/360new/examples/Using
> > %20QT4/WHITEPAPER_HTML5vQML.pdf>.
>  
> > Qt Creator already ships with QML support, why not transform the HTML
> > offline documentation into QML?
>  Does it have to be HTML5/CSS?
> > 
> > Having the documentation as QML will have no additional constrains for Qt
> > Creator. No 76MiB Qt5WebEngineCore.dll file, no memory increase, no startup
> > penalty.
>  
> > QML is supported on all platforms, right? Builds with MinGW on Windows, and
> > so on.
>  
> > Cheers,
> > Cristian.
> 
> 10 points for thinking out of the box :-) 

That I surely agree with.

The second biggest problem of the ongoing discussion is that it set out with
a pre-set solution instead of actually clarifying the scope of the problem,
and evaluating possible solutions, so considering alternatives is clearly a
step forward.

Andre'