[Gambas-user] When QT discontinues QtWebkit

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 10/10/2015 20:12, Moviga Technologies a écrit :
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> That makes me want to continue working on my apps that depend on WebView
> with new-found motivation again :)
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> Hurray!

As I said, in QT 5.4 (which I use at the moment), the new QtWebEngine 
classes that replace QtWebKit classes do not support DOM. So I can't use 
them to reimplement Gambas WebView control.

In QT 5.6, the QtWebKit classes have been removed, but no DOM support 
has been implemented in QtWebEngine. So it will be impossible to make a 
Gambas WebView equivalent...

There will be other quirks for sure: many methods in QtWebEngine are now 
asynchronous ; you can't access the different frames of a page anymore ; 
and so on...

That means gb.qt5.webkit will be removed, and replaced by a less 
powerful gb.qt5.chromium.

Or maybe I will try to make a gb.qt5.web that will automatically switch 
between webkit or chromium according to what is available (i.e. you will 
have the old gb.qt5.webkit, if possible, and a gb.qt5.web that will be 
based on the new WebView engine).

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini