[Development] CSS styling, XML, HTML etc. (was Re: Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support)

[Bastiaan Veelo]

[skipping many interesting points, sorry]

On 21/05/2019 16:06, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> Anyway I think Assistant is one of those cases where I would prefer to 
> keep using QTextBrowser and fix it up a bit more to suit, rather than 
> switching to a real browser engine. Light weight is a real advantage. 
> Creator already takes up enough memory as it is, with its code model 
> especially. And documentation doesn’t need most of the fancy HTML 
> features either.

A better QTextBrowser would be very much welcomed, but there may still 
be cases where Assistant needs more features.

The question of what HTML features are necessary depends on the 
application. In user applications, Assistant is not used to display code 
documentation (which is quite simple) but help files, which may require 
a much greater feature set. If it were possible, it could even be 
desirable to include small video clips as instructions for performing 
certain tasks. So there may still be applications where a full browser 
stack would be desirable. One could argue that one should spawn a real 
browser instead, but the index and search facilities in Assistant are 
invaluable.

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Bastiaan.