[Qt-interest] Qt Webkit or QtQuick?

[Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch]

On 2010-11-08 Sylvain Sylvain Pointeau wrote:

> ...
> I was sure that Qt + webkit would be part of the future, I mean 
> HTML+css + backend C++ / json is fantastic.

Uhm... do you have "web apps" in mind? Or why would anyone think of using QtWebkit - a browser/html renderer! - to develop apps with a *GUI* framework such as Qt? ;) 

> However I am seeing a lot of discussion around QtQuick but I still 
> don't see any case for it. 

QML/QtQuick is aimed at "rapid GUI development", mostly for mobile platforms ("smartphones"). But it seems like the Trolls at Nokia also favour/recommend/suggest it for desktop apps.

> there is no standard widget, it seems 
> platform agnostic and the QML seems very complex.

I have not touched QML yet, but if you think THAT is complex, you sure haven't considered the "classic" QWidget based approach, have you? ;)


In any case it totally depends on what your application is supposed to do and where it should run. My totally biased (based on experience/lack thereof) opinion would be:

- Desktop: Go the Qt Creator/QWidget way!
- Mobile phones / "simple" desktop "widgets": Try QtQuick / QML
- Browser based app: There's nothing to stop you using HTML / CSS / XHTML / JSON / ... together with QtWebKit ;)

Cheers, Oliver
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Oliver Knoll
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