[Interest] [Development] Short/medium term evolution of the Assistant?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

11.11.2017, 02:49, "Oleg Shparber" <trollixx at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On 10 November 2017 at 15:06, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Last but not least: Zeal is indeed very closely related to Dash. So close in fact that it cannot advocate Mac compatibility for licensing/legal reasons, and that it would probably be delicate even to provide it via MacPorts.
>
> Zeal developer here. The reason it is not available for macOS is the agreement [1], that grants our users free access to ~200 docsets maintained by the author of Dash. Unless we find another comparable source of documentation with close to zero maintenance, there will be no official macOS support. Zeal can be built for macOS, but looks quite ugly over there, and nobody tests if everything works.
>
> Back to the topic of this discussion. We've recently switched to Qt WebKit 5.212, and sadly it didn't make all our problems go away due to a number of regressions. And even if Qt WebKit worked perfectly, a full scale browser engine still feels like an overkill for a simple task of displaying documentation.

I think unless you have a full control over the content (or content authors intentionally test it with QTB), you have to support all of HTML and CSS modern engines implement, and maybe even some JS.

>
> QTextBrowser while quite capable often struggles with displaying anything but very basic pre-HTML5 content, plus it doesn't support HiDPI screens. Improving QTB is an idea I occasionally entertain, but that would require a significant time investment.
>
> Another alternative I am currently considering is falling back to MSHTML on Windows. There was a similar effort for Qt Assistant in the past [2], but didn't make it. For a documentation viewer MSHTML should provide everything required.
>
> 1. https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal/issues/24
> 2. https://codereview.qt-project.org/100930
>
> Cheers,
> Oleg
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Konstantin