[Interest] QtWebkit replacement status...

[Jason Dolan]

I would love to hear some “official” input on this.  Our project will be migrating to Qt5 later on this year.  One of our 3rd-party services is embedded into our product as a webpage.  That 3rd-party makes use of nsapi plugins.  Primarily for pdf viewing.  We have then used QWebPluginFactory to create our own internal PDF viewer plugin (using poppler).  If we can’t do that in Qt5, that is going to be a problem.

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> On Mar 23, 2015, at 12:40 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Frank Hemer <frank at hemer.org <mailto:frank at hemer.org>> wrote:
> 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 ...
> 
> You may be out of luck on that, unless I'm mistaken QtWebEngine is based on the Chrome/Chromium code-base and that one has dropped nsapi support (http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html <http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html>). That being said more recent versions of Chromium seem to include the pdf-plugin that was originally done for Google Chrome, so it may be just a matter of getting that part built and included (no idea which chromium version QtWebEngine uses right now).
> 
> Andreas
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