Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-28 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 27/06/2019 21:02, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Thursday, 27 June 2019 01:07:45 PDT Konrad Rosenbaum wrote: Please also keep in mind that a fair number of developers use the same tool-chain (qdoc, assistant, QtHelp) to generate their own documentation - this means that assistant gets redistribute

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-27 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
A very good post, thank you Jarek. Ideally, Qt would have a dedicated HTML renderer that works on all platforms, without unnecessary overhead and security issues. Possibly as a new widget (QHtmlBrowser) to keep QTextBrowser strictly rich text, possibly removing features from QTextBrowser to ma

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-27 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 27/06/2019 06:57, Richard Weickelt wrote: Qt used to make a point on having superior documentation to most other frameworks, and it was (and still is) one of the reasons for its success. Whatever we can do to help make the documentation better is something I think we should do. [...] I stopp

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-25 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 25/06/2019 18:16, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Tuesday, 25 June 2019 09:05:21 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote: It hasn't been updated in years. Don't use it, since it's clearly not getting security updates. New version is currently in development, and should be ready in time frame of Qt 5.14 (at l

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-25 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 26/06/2019 00:15, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote: There's also Zeal which is a nice Qt-based documentation browser which covers much more than the current .qch offering: https://zealdocs.org/ & https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal I see it used more and more. Best, Jean-Michaël That's QWebView b

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-25 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 25/06/2019 21:30, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote: It is documentation for developers for crying out loud! No it is not. Assistant is distributed as a help viewer, to be distributed along with applications for use by the customers of your customers. As soon as QTextBrowser in its current sorry st

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-25 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 21/06/2019 11:08, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: [...] The best solution would therefore be, in my opinion, to change the order of compilation, apply the existing patch, and consider refactorings and unifications thereafter. I went ahead and did this. https://github.com/veelo/qttools is a fork of

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-25 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 21/05/2019 14:50, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: 21.05.2019, 15:47, "Bastiaan Veelo" : On 20/05/2019 19:02, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:  [...] Current version of QtWebKit from 5.212 works on Windows,  there are binaries at  http://download.qt.io/snapshots/ci/qtwebkit/5.212/lates

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-24 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 24/06/2019 22:44, Lars Knoll wrote: Another +1 from me. Let’s stop fighting this. We need something that can properly display any HTML content (and maybe PDF and things as well) that we throw at it. Thank you. Bastiaan. ___ Development mailing li

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-21 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 21/06/2019 15:47, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: 21.06.2019, 16:40, "Bastiaan Veelo" : On 21/06/2019 14:57, Volker Hilsheimer wrote:  I’m not Jarek, but I recall that Eddy made a suggestion [1] which I  think has been prematurely dismissed or at least not been discussed  su

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-21 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 21/06/2019 14:57, Volker Hilsheimer wrote: I’m not Jarek, but I recall that Eddy made a suggestion [1] which I think has been prematurely dismissed or at least not been discussed sufficiently, which is: * move the Qt Assistant functionality for searching and qch support into a locally exec

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-06-21 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 21/05/2019 12:24, Kai Köhne wrote: -Original Message- From: Development On Behalf Of Subject: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support Hi, I am prepared to do some work on Qt Assistant, and I'd like to know how that will be received. Cool, great you want to tackle this 😊

Re: [Development] CSS styling, XML, HTML etc. (was Re: Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support)

2019-05-21 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
[skipping many interesting points, sorry] On 21/05/2019 16:06, Shawn Rutledge wrote: Anyway I think Assistant is one of those cases where I would prefer to keep using QTextBrowser and fix it up a bit more to suit, rather than switching to a real browser engine. Light weight is a real advantage.

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-05-21 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 20/05/2019 19:02, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: 20.05.2019, 19:58, "Bastiaan Veelo" : On 20/05/2019 17:56, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:  20.05.2019, 18:27, "Bastiaan Veelo" :  On 20/05/2019 16:51, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:    Note that it should be possible to rebuild Q

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-05-21 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 21/05/2019 12:24, Kai Köhne wrote: -Original Message- From: Development On Behalf Of Subject: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support Hi, I am prepared to do some work on Qt Assistant, and I'd like to know how that will be received. Cool, great you want to tackle this 😊

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-05-20 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 20/05/2019 17:56, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: 20.05.2019, 18:27, "Bastiaan Veelo" : On 20/05/2019 16:51, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:  Note that it should be possible to rebuild QtTools with QtWebKit support,  for example this configuration is supported in Gentoo out of the box. I

Re: [Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-05-20 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
On 20/05/2019 16:51, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: 20.05.2019, 16:02, "Bastiaan Veelo" : [...] Qt Assistant officially only renders content with QTextBrowser currently, which is too limited for many of us[1]. There are still traces of greater WebKit times, but that code remains un

[Development] Assistant WebKit/WebEngine support

2019-05-20 Thread Bastiaan Veelo
hanks, Bastiaan Veelo [1] https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-55866 [2] https://forum.qt.io/topic/102816/webkit-status-2019 [3] https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/111559/ ___ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-projec