Am 25.06.19 um 10:10 schrieb Morten Sørvig: > I’m not sure if it has been mentioned; we have another option which is to use > the OS web browser component via the Qt WebView module. > > The benefits would be > > * up-to-date web browser (and someone else keeps it up to date for us) > * insignificant additional download size > * no trouble with restricted platforms where shipping a full web browser is > not feasible (but then maybe creator isn’t going to run on those platforms, > anyway) > > QWebView’s platform coverage may be insufficient for Creator, which means > > * no html docs on those platforms :( > * or, we expand QWebView platform coverage > * or, QT WebView does have a WebEngine backend
I think that would indeed be desirable in the long run. At the moment this is limited to macOS (and from the looks of it, Qt Creator has direct support for using WebKit on macOS, but oddly my build doesn't have it enabled?). I'm quite excited about Microsoft's WebView2 development that could become a very nice backend for QWebView on Windows. I played with it the other day and it looks quite nice. The deployment model is not suitable for us at the moment (nuget only) and it's still in an early release phase. However it comes with a powerful API and an opt-in evergreen distribution model. QWebView would also need to be improved to support feeding custom data into it, unless somebody implements serving via a local http server. I think these are all options in the future. Simon _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
