On Jun 20, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Rutledge Shawn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 20 Jun 2014, at 08:32, Knoll Lars <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Currently Qt WebKit and Qt WebKit Widgets are marked in our documentation >> as Qt Essentials. I’d like to propose to move them to the add-on category >> for 5.4. >> >> There are several reasons for that, the main ones being: >> >> * Qt WebKit is not supported on Android, iOS and WinRT >> * We can’t develop it much further (esp we can't update with newer >> versions of webkit), as the webkit project has moved into a different >> direction >> * Qt WebEngine is going to replace it over time >> >> Unless someone has a very good reason against changing this, I’d like to >> change the status of the 2 modules in time before the 5.4 branch is being >> created. > > Will all of our own usage of WebKit (such as in Assistant and Creator) be > replaced with WebEngine in time for 5.4? I don’t know when it will be possible to actually create a WebEngine backend for the help viewer in Qt Creator, but I did some work in Qt Creator 3.2 to make that technically easy (we already had an additional “QTextBrowser” based backend before, but it was a ifdef mess). Br, Eike -- Eike Ziller, Senior Software Engineer - Digia, Qt Digia Germany GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Anja Wasenius Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin. Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
