[Interest] Daydreaming about browser-hosted Qt apps

[Elvis Stansvik]

2014-09-25 4:03 GMT+02:00 Bob Hood <bhood2 at comcast.net>:

> I was just daydreaming about writing a web-based interface to a secure
> cloud
> storage (ala DropBox) using Qt.  I imagined clients who would need to use
> Desktop-based browsers (Chrome, Firefox, etc.) for the ability to securely
> access their documents for review or modification (in, say, PDF format).
>
> I went a-Googling for the potential.  I came up with was emscripten
> (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki).  While that looks
> interesting, I
> don't think it is practical enough for professional use.  I also
> discovered a
> trick of launching an external Qt app, that uses the native window pointer,
> via a browser plug-in.
>
> I'm just curious to know if there been any other (more elegant) work in
> this
> area?  Everything Qt today seems to be targeted at stand-alone "apps" for
> mobile (iOS, Android, WinRT, etc.), which I suppose would work on a
> Desktop,
> but has the browser-hosted Qt widget interface been panned as
> unsupportable?
>

While it's not Qt running in browser, there's also Wt (
http://www.webtoolkit.eu/) which seems to me a more viable way of getting
something Qt-ish in web land. Haven't used it myself though.

Regards,
Elvis


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