On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Koehne Kai <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Development [mailto:[email protected]] Im >> Auftrag von Kevin Kofler >> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Januar 2016 19:15 >> An: [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: [Development] Qt WebKit dependency in Qt Assistant >> >> Hi, >> >> Aleix Pol wrote: >> > One of the big news lately is the deprecation of Qt WebKit module. >> > >> > One of the Qt dependencies on it is assistant (which is a tool I use >> > quite often, really) and AFAIK it's using it quite thoroughly. It used >> > to be powered by QTextBrowser though, as far as I remember. >> >> We tried building Qt Assistant against QTextBrowser in Fedora long ago (IIRC, >> in an attempt to get rid of the circular dependency between Qt 4 and >> QtWebKit 4). We found that it was a very bad idea because the Qt help was >> looking horrible as a result, not to mention third-party help using >> Assistant. >> So this was very quickly reverted to QtWebKit. AFAIK, QTextBrowser's HTML >> and especially CSS support has not improved significantly, if at all, since >> then. > > That's the plan for the Qt SDK in 5.6 though: The doc team simplified the CSS > somewhat so that QTextBrowser can handle it. While the rendered page is > arguably not as polished as with a 'proper' HTML renderer, it's IMO good > enough. > > There has also been patches for using QtWebEngine as a backend, but this does > not cover all platforms that we currently provide binaries for (e.g. MinGW > would be left out). > >> This is really not funny: >> * you (= the Qt project) stop maintaining QtWebKit, >> * you deprecate it, >> * you stop providing even security updates for it, >> * and now you stop even shipping it at all, and yet you haven't even ported >> YOUR OWN code away from it! (And the QTextBrowser "solution" leaves A >> LOT to be desired.) > > We'll provide source packages for qtwebkit as long as it's feasible.
Hi, That's the answer I was looking forward to. Thanks Kai and the team. :) Regards, Aleix _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
