Hej Konrad, thanks for new insights !
>>0.) QTextBrowser is an actual light-weight browser with limited HTML >>support Was not aware of it. With "light-weight" I also thought of basic JavaScript support etc. – so this is probably "too light" for me. >>4.) See above. And you can always call QDesktopServices::openUrl to open >>the system browser. That's actually a great option I was not aware of either ! Best Alex -- http://www.carot.de Email : alexan...@carot.de Tel.: +49 (0)177 5719797 > Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Dezember 2022 um 21:28 Uhr > Von: "Konrad Rosenbaum" <kon...@silmor.de> > An: interest@qt-project.org > Betreff: Re: [Interest] Qt web browser development > > Hi, > > 0.) QTextBrowser is an actual light-weight browser with limited HTML > support of a sub-set of HTML 4, but it is good enough for many tasks - > especially when the HTML is generated inside the program itself and > displays only relatively simple content. It can be used for > documentation, if you can live without complex CSS. It is not good > enough to display external web pages. > > > On 27/12/2022 15:49, Alexander Carôt wrote: > > I need to define roadmap for future development and with regard to web > > browser-integrated Qt solutions am I correct that: > > > > 1.) QtWebView works on any platform as a “light-weight” solution and > > especially on iOS and Android there currently is no other choice ? > > 1.) QtWebView is not exactly light-weight. For Windows and Linux it uses > QtWebEngine for rendering, on Apple OSes it uses the system browser > engine (derived from the same code base as WebEngine). > > Use this if you want to be compatible with all platforms, since e.g. the > iOS app store forbids you to use your own browser component and forces > the use of the system component. > > > > 2.) QtWebEngine representes the full-browser stack but it only works on > > macOS, Linux and Windows ? > > 2.) No idea, never used it. Hopefully someone else will answer that. > > > > 3.) QtWebKit is outdated and not available in Qt6 anymore ? > > 3.) Correct. > > > > 4.) No other Qt-related classes besides 1.) and 2.) exist for this purpose ? > 4.) See above. And you can always call QDesktopServices::openUrl to open > the system browser. > > > > Konrad > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest > _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
