On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <[email protected]> wrote: > 25.01.2012, 15:09, "Sylvain Pointeau" <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Jocelyn Turcotte >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Sylvain, >>> >>> This might take some time, but we will eventually need some way to exchange >>> data between wrapping applications and the web content. >>> It might not be as powerful as QWebElement was, but it should cover most >>> use cases for those distributing and controlling both the web content and >>> the wrapping C++/QML application. >>> >>> See also No'am's post about the subject: >>> http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/08/31/an-oldnew-approach-to-qtwebkit-hybrid/ >>> >>> I think that WebKit1 offers few advantages over WebKit2 as a platform web >>> view, especially from a user experience and stability point of view. Of >>> course there will always be cases where WebKit1 will feel more adapted, but >>> we'd like to see the list of those cases to shrink over time as WebKit2's >>> advantages start weighting more (especially with the Qt5 scene graph). >>> >>> Having multi processes should bring only a reasonable overhead and, if this >>> becomes a problem, we keep the possibility of working on getting the web >>> "process" spawned in a thread instead. >>> >>> I hope this clears it a bit, >>> Jocelyn >> I am still not clear of the real benefit in case of embedding webkit2 in an >> app. >> Seems it is more efficient for the scene graph (of QML), but I do not know >> why... >> Also I am wondering why apple is keeping webkit1 as web view for application >> if they use webkit2 for Safari. >> Does it means they think that webkit1 is more suitable for normal apps? > > AFAIK, they just want to preserve compatibility with existing applications. > WebKit2 architecture allows to expose both WebKit1 and WebKit2 APIs from > single build of WebKit, so it's not a big deal to keep both APIs.
Yep just like us when you build against Qt5 :D > > -- > Regards, > Konstantin > _______________________________________________ > webkit-qt mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt -- Alexis Menard (darktears) Software Engineer INdT Recife Brazil _______________________________________________ webkit-qt mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt
