Denis, What would be a typical filesize hit for including Qt4/Qt5?
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Denis Kormalev <[email protected]> wrote: > Why not to use Qt at all Windows, Linux and MacOS X? If we are talking about > Qt5 (which is in development now) it will have webkit2 inside (Qt4 has > webkit1). > > -- > Regards, > Denis Kormalev > > On 02 May 2012, at 00:43, Patrick Mueller wrote: > >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Dave Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi all, I just wanted to start a discussion about Cordova as a >>> solution for building desktop apps and get some ideas flowing around >>> what people are thinking about that. >>> >> >> Sounds fun to me. >> >> It would be useful to talk about what the difference between Cordova >> Desktop and things like Fluid, XULRunner, etc are. Fluid appears to be >> "less programmable" now, in the free version. I think the free version >> used to have user scripts, but I think you have to pay for that now. >> >> >>> Good idea? Bad idea? What do people think about using the OS webview >>> vs embedding webkit? Whatever else ... >>> >> >> Let's start with "who has webview widgets available?" >> >> - Mac OSX - WebView >> - Linux - I think both GTK and Qt have a WebView-ish thang in their UI >> frameworks >> - Windows - IE control >> >> So the question is, can we do what we want with a pre-existing native >> "WebView"? Maybe. And then gauge that against the expense of doing new >> WebKit ports - which seems HUMONGOUS to me. >> >> Howzabout "use stripped down version of FireBug" or "stripped down version >> of Chromium" - available on the interesting platforms, maybe it's easy to >> remove bits from their builds than it is to do a new build from scratch. >> >> Also, kinda odd-ball choice here, but Eclipse SWT has a Java "Browser" >> widget which is essentially a WebView. I used it in the "Mac app version" >> of weinre. Super easy to use, portable API across platforms. >> >> Lastly, I'll note one environmental aspect that I've noticed while playing >> with this stuff over the years. The ability to debug your JS/HTML in a lot >> of these environments is downright shitty. Been enough to completely turn >> me off diving deeper. >> >> -- >> Patrick Mueller >> http://muellerware.org >
