Re: Error on Mint 22 with Gambas 3.20.2 when adding the gb.gui.qt.webview component

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 07/04/2025 à 16:42, Claus Dietrich a écrit :
> 1.    This would require a preinstalled Java-Script as prerequisite on 
> the platform.
>
> 2.    Why should we inject a Java-Script into an existing (third party) 
> HTML-document, just because we want to display it? Currently the search 
> function is realized with Gambas GUI control elements (i.e. in a HTML- 
> Help-viewer) and I would prefer to keep it like that.
>
> 3.   I am assuming, that the search function of web-browsers like 
> Firefox are also part of the application GUI and not injected into the 
> HTML-document as Java-Script.

Only the search and text highlight would be implemented in Javascript. 
The GUI would be outside of the browser.

> The search function of the deprecated webkit works perfectly. Why should 
> this be different with any other/new engine?
Because the API is different between browser widgets. Luckily, the 
search function is still there in all versions. But, for example, we 
lost the ability to access the DOM between Qt Webkit and Qt WebView.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini.