[Qt-interest] Qt with Web toolkit?

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
> There's this extremely awesome framework for writing native (meaning
> HTML/JavaScript/AJAX, no ugly Flash or Java stuff) web applications in
> C++ called "Web toolkit" ("Wt").  It's even inspired by Qt:
>
>   http://www.webtoolkit.eu
>
> It's pretty much what Qt does, except for the web: you write your code
> in C++, and just like for example Qt uses the Objective-C Cocoa API on
> the Mac to deliver the results, Wt uses HTML/JavaScript/AJAX to do the same.
>
> I haven't looked to deep into this yet, but I have to wonder: Are there
> any projects out there that enable Qt applications to make use of Wt, or
> anything in general that tries to bring Qt and Wt together?

Look at the 'examples/wtwithqt' example and library in the Wt source tarball.

There is also a port of Wt to Google NaCl that allows you to download
the application locally and execute it offline. Combine that with Qt
port to NaCl and...

> If it would be possible for Qt to run natively on the web somehow, this
> would make Qt, like, *the* most awesome GUI toolkit ever in the history
> of computing.



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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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