[Interest] rebooted QtWebKit for Qt4??

[Roland Hughes]

On 7/9/20 5:00 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> I have no idea how big the public QtWebKit API really is, but a more interesting/exciting/cool solution might be to replace Qt4WebKit with smallish glue library that somehow uses a Qt5-based render process. I notice that the rebooted QtWebKit can work with an external render process, so I presume that it should be possible technically to interface with that from Qt4.

Well, according to this documentation link for Qt 4.8 
https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.8/qtwebkit-guide.html

and this documentation link for CopperSpice 
https://www.copperspice.com/docs/cs_api_1.6/concepts-webkit.html

They have a "slightly" newer version of WebKit.

"CsWebKit is a web content rendering engine based on the open source 
WebKit project, featuring broad support for standard web technologies. 
CsWebKit is developed as a part of the WebKit community, which enables 
every new release of CsWebKit to include the latest developments from 
the WebKit project."

You might want to see how much pain would be involved in porting your 
applications to CopperSpice which is a fork of Qt 4.8-something sans all 
of the nasty QML stuff. They've fixed/changed quite a few other things 
too. At some point in the near future they promise what the 
medical/industrial device world has been dying for . . . a __stable__ API.

Maybe that quote from the page is a dream they hope to achieve? I don't 
know. I just know it is there. I guess you can pick your pain. <Grin>


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