[Qtwebengine] Dev tools and request signals

Philipp A. flying-sheep at web.de
Sun Dec 14 00:24:05 CET 2014


Sorry, i didn’t quite phrase that well:

The decision not to sync Qt Webkit while Qt WebEngine isn’t ready to
replace it yet was a bad decision.

browsers based on Qt now have a lean period during which they can’t ship
proper functionality (newest HTML5 features, as well as cookie, request &
proxy management, dev tools)

2014-12-13 16:30 GMT+01:00 Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org>:
>
> Hey Philip,
>
> * Philipp A. <flying-sheep at web.de> [2014-12-13 14:06:30 +0100]:
> > I impatiently awaited the new Qt WebEngine, because it has a non-ancient
> > webkit/blink version and promised to supersede the old Qt Webkit module.
> >
> > Now how do i enable/trigger the blink dev tools?
> >
> > And how do i hook into requests the page wants to make without
> > QNetworkAccessManager interop (in order to find out why the hell that
> > request was denied even with LocalContentCanAccessRemoteUrls and
> > LocalContentCanAccessFileUrls)?
> >
> > if any of the answers are “you don’t”, Qt WebEngine was a bad decision. i
> > want one thing that is up-to-date and powerful, not thing A that is
> > deprecated and powerful together with thing B that is up-to-date and
> inept.
>
> I'm not a QtWebEngine developer, just someone writing a browser using
> QtWebKit and also looking forward to QtWebEngine. But let me share my
> thoughts about this.
>
> The answer to all of this is probably "not yet". This means you can
> either patiently wait (what I'm doing), start to contribute, or pay
> other people to allow them to work on it more.
>
> That doesn't make QtWebEngine "a bad decision". It's just not there
> yet. 5.4 is the first Qt release to include QtWebEngine, you shouldn't
> expect to be able to use it for too sophisticated stuff already ;)
>
> That being said, QtWebKit is still being maintained (in terms of
> bugfixes) and works just fine for me and a lot of other Qt based
> browsers. Nobody said it's deprecated, and I don't expect it to be
> deprecated until QtWebEngine is more advanced.
>
> Florian
>
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