Archive for April, 2008
Deciding Against Deciding Against QtWebKit
I had earlier said I would dump QtWebKit and use a Cairo/Curl backed WebKit. But after evaluating 3 WebKit flavors, I’m now deciding to stick with QtWebKit. I’ve successfully compiled and run the following:
Apple’s WebKit : CoreGraphics, Core Foundation Network
QtWebKit : No external dependencies, except Qt of course.
Windows Cairo/Curl : All GPL libraries onlyWebKit Widget Engine
I’ve been testing, prototyping a WebKit based widget engine. This will totally halt my Ashlar Project.
I’ve been using the QT based port to build the engine. The results are quite good. I could build widgets easily with plain HTML and Javascript. The prototype could even host some Dashboard basic widgets.
I am not quite impressed […]