[Interest] QtWebkit replacement status...

[Frank Hemer]

On Monday 23 March 2015 15:28:46 Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> My biggest problem with webkit, is the TONS of dependencies it requires..
> 
> My app is not a "web" app, we use it for embedded help.. In Qt4, it added 1
> or 2 dlls, in Qt5, we wind up having to include a large portion of Qt that
> my app really doesn't care about, except for webkit.
> 
> Im hoping the replacement web engine has fewer dependencies.

Nope - its worse! The chrome has more dependencies after all.

Frank

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Frank Hemer Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 8:14 AM
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] QtWebkit replacement status...
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> On Monday 23 March 2015 15:00:16 Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> > Which version of Qt should I use? 5.4?
> 
> well, I currently use Qt5.4.0 with webkit since there recently have some
> annoying bugs with the nsapi plugin been fixed. The browser pdf plugins are
> a must for me (no alternative for using a pdf reader on end user systems),
> so I must wait for webengine to provide a replacement for these ... on
> devdays there has been mentioned that nsapi support is not planned to be
> implemented so that makes me worry a bit ...
> 
> Currently webkit works fine for me and due to the latest talk on the list I
> expect it to keep working during the qt5 lifetime.
> 
> Even compiling webengine took me very loooooong - just finding out about its
> dependencies was a hell! For me it does definitely not feel like being
> ready for production use.
> 
> Frank
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org
> > [mailto:interest-bounces+scott.bloom=onshorecs.com at qt-project.org] On
> > Behalf Of Frank Hemer Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 5:00 AM
> > To: interest at qt-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [Interest] QtWebkit replacement status...
> > 
> > On Friday 20 March 2015 21:59:10 Scott Aron Bloom wrote:
> > > What is the status of Qt WebEngine?
> > > 
> > > Meaning, is it stable enough, to replace qtwebkit on production
> > > quality applications yet?
> > > 
> > > Lots of talk about it's the future.. but I cant find on google, has
> > > it been fully replaced and fully working.
> > > 
> > > The webpages I render in my app, are pretty simple, no media to
> > > worry about.
> > 
> > currently no support for nsapi plugins (adobe ...).
> > 
> > Frank
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