[Interest] QtSVG deprecated

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Hi,

A few years ago everybody in KDE was sure WebKit was going to replace
QtSVG for SVG rendering. It was assumed WebKit would be better for
SVG.

Then someone (Ariya?) actually experimented and compared QtSVG,
WebKit, librsvg and some more (AntiGrain?). Surprisingly The result
was WebKit was usually worse than QtSVG, and the most accurate
renderer was librsvg. Unfortunately I cannot find that blog post now
but it would be interesting to repeat the experiment and see if WebKit
is actually the best choice for SVG rendering.



On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
> I notice here:
>
> <http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/05/12/qt-modules-maturity-level-the-list/>
>
> that QtSvg is now deprecated:
>
> [quote]
> QtSvg
> Overall module state: Deprecated
> New maintainer required
> Reasoning: SVG Full (as opposed to SVG Tiny) functionality available in
> QtWebKit, which should be used instead; we welcome research for a
> replacement for the SVG-generating code.
> [/quote]
>
> I use QtSvg for toolbar icons and similar application-level graphics, to
> provide easy scalability. Will QImage still support SVG images after
> QtSvg is gone? I can't imagine how I could use WebKit for this
> functionality.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
> --
> Martin Holmes
> University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
> (mholmes at uvic.ca)
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