[Interest] Porting from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine

[Koehne Kai]

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> [mailto:interest-bounces+kai.koehne=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Jean-Francois Dockes
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 8:18 PM
> To: Qt Interest
> Subject: [Interest] Porting from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to port two GUI applications from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine
> (recoll and upplay).
> 
> I had a look at the porting page
> (https://wiki.qt.io/Porting_from_QtWebKit_to_QtWebEngine is that it ?),
> but I am blocking on an issue which does not seem to be mentionned: there
> does not seem to be a way to hijack QtWebEngine link clicks so that they
> are handled by the Qt C++ application code.

There's indeed no API for this so far. Maybe file a feature request?


If you control the content, you might consider using QtWebChannel as a bridge between the HTML and the C++ part.

Regards

Kai