[Interest] Daydreaming about browser-hosted Qt apps

[Brian Dentino]

Another interesting project out there is QmlWeb. Haven't looked too much into it yet but at first glance it seems like it could be promising, at least for relatively simple Qml-based apps.

http://akreuzkamp.de/2013/07/10/webapps-written-in-qml-not-far-from-reality-anymore/


On Sep 25, 2014, at 12:46 AM, Elvis Stansvik <elvstone at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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