Hi! It's always nice to see more and more stuff coming out of QtWebKit. On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Andrea Diamantini <[email protected]> wrote: > Given qtwebkit devs intention to no more develop the WebKit1 bits of the qt > port and considering the needs of kde webkit browsers (you may know I'm just > developing one), I decided to try working a bit on it with some minimal > targets. > In my idea, kde-qt-webkit releases should be drop-in replacement for the > qtwebkit lib provided with qt 4.x, so that we can i.e. compile kdewebkit > against this new library without problems. In fact, no real kde integration > will be provided (that is, kio and k- classes will continue living outside > webkit code). At least for the qt4/kde4 release cycle.
I'm not a KDE contributor myself so I might be missing something here, but I don't get this. If you say we have no more intention to develop QtWebKit 1 and given that now Qt is under Open Governance, wouldn't the solution being you guys stepping in and working on QtWebKit 1 trunk to get your patches upstream? In other words, why isn't KDE interested in developing QtWebKit 1 instead of forking it to something else? Cheers! jesus > > Targets for this port are: > > - let the branch synced with svn webkit master. > > - merge Lindsay Mathieson work about spellcheck support > > - let html5 audio/video work as best as possible, eventually switching back > to the phonon implementation (and that's because I cc'ed in this mail Harald > Sitter, actual phonon maintainer) > > - (eventually) let (kde-)-qt-webkit compile with cmake > > - fix some of the kdewebkit integration known issues pending like (and here > is adawit cc): > > * [QtWebKit] Form completion like the one available in native Qt widgets > such > as QLineEdit is missing due to lack of access to form elements. > See http://webkit.org/b/36668. > > and so on > > - do some bugfixing and gain some webkit development experience. > > - backport at least one fix :) > > > The idea is just to work on this until kde5 (whose release data is probably > comparable with that of qt 5.1) and then decide again what to do (basically > dropping out WebKit1 support and moving to qt5/webkit2 or continue this > experience becoming a "more official" full kde webkit port. > > Hints and comments are welcome. > > Regards, > Andrea Diamantini. > _______________________________________________ > webkit-qt mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt _______________________________________________ webkit-qt mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-qt
