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Qt's default webkit user agent
by Benjamin Meyer 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

As it is today Qt's default user agent (in qwebpage.cpp) is hard coded to: "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3 Qt" Seeing as this library will be used inside of many other applications it makes sense to include by default at least the application name/version when they are set. QCoreApplication gives us several strings which can be used. applicationName, applicationVersion, organizationDomain, organizationName But at a bigger question, what should be included (or not included) with the default user agent? Is there docs anywhere that suggest what webkit library users should use as their user agent string? -Benjamin Meyer

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Re: [webkit-changes] [24723] trunk/WebCore
by Darin Adler 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

I'm not happy with the code organization here. XMLTokenizer now has tons of ifdefs and two separate implementations. It's fine to have a QXmlStream implementation, but the two implementations should be in separate files, side by side, as we do in the platform layer. Or the XML parser should be abstracted out so we have a single XMLTokenizer built on a single parser abstraction. I think this is also the type of patch that should be reviewed by at least one person other than the folks concentrating on the Qt port. With the huge number of check-ins today, I'm sure there are other interesting things like this that I missed. -- Darin

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Desperate for webkit help
by Mark 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Hi. I've been developing a cocoa application based around webkit for the last 18 months. It's an auto form filling/submitting tool primarily designed for adult webmasters to submit their free pages to link lists. (If this is an problem I guess you can stop reading now)... Currently development has grinded to a complete hault because of a webkit issue that we just can't work round. We first noticed the issue with the release of Safari 3 but it still exists in the last nightly build of webkit. The issue is this: imagine a simple html form. The form is like so and the user filled data is in brackets: Name: (mark) Email: (whatever(a)qwerty123456.com) Url: (http://www.google.com) Now if we submit this form in Safari/Webkit, 40-50% of the time the web script will throw up an 'invalid email' or 'invalid url' message. At first you think 'oh, I must have entered data incorrectly' but clicking back, data looks fine. Submit same data again, second time round it submits fine! It seems to happen totally at random, it's like the data visible in the form fields (ie, the user entered data) is not being passed onto the form when submit is pressed. It worked fine prior to safari 3 and we know it's a webkit issue because it only occurs in our app/safari/webkit. Other browsers submit the same data perfectly each time to the exact same html forms. It's very hard to nail down. Sometimes it will submit fine first time, sometimes if it fails first time, it can fail second time and then succeed third time. You just have to keep submitting the same data until it works. Can anyone please help with this? It's kinda killed our application and as the title suggests I'm *desperate* for it to be fixed. kindest regards mark

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Crash on arm
by Naiem Shaik 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hi All, I am working on linux box. I have cross compiled the Webkit for ARM and ran the Gtklauncher on the ARM board. When I open www.yahoo.com I get a crash with following backtrace: #0 0x403fb1c4 in Balloc () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #1 0x403fb4d0 in mult () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #2 0x403fb684 in pow5mult () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #3 0x403fddf8 in kjs_dtoa () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #4 0x404766c4 in KJS::UString::from () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #5 0x4041a938 in KJS::JSImmediate::toString () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #6 0x4045d21c in KJS::add () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #7 0x40429528 in KJS::AddNode::evaluate () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #8 0x40429528 in KJS::AddNode::evaluate () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #9 0x40429528 in KJS::AddNode::evaluate () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #10 0x4042bb94 in KJS::ArgumentListNode::evaluateList () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #11 0x4042c070 in KJS::FunctionCallDotNode::evaluate () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #12 0x404261a0 in KJS::ExprStatementNode::execute () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 #13 0x404235e0 in KJS::SourceElementsNode::execute () from /usr/local/lib/libWebKitGtk.so.1 I would have raised a bug for this but, on desktop it works fine, can someone please guide me as to what could be going wrong. Best Regards, ~Naiem

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Fwd: help
by sanaa ss 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi, I am very new to this WebKit technology. I have built WebKit using Qt. Then i would like to try an example with, but i don't knew how to do it. Please any one can help me. Best regards.

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Compile WebKit as an embedded framework
by Krapfl, Adam 01 May '08

01 May '08

My company writes a Java application that uses the WebKit.framework. The framework is called through a jnilib library compiled in xcode. This has worked fine for a number of years. Recently we've had some problems because of changes Apple has pushed to the framework through Safari updates. 3.1 was especially problematic for us. Design issues aside, we would like to embed the open source version of the framework into our application. This has a number of benefits to us, including simplified installation (admin rights not required...all components self-contained), independence of Apple release schedules, predictable environments to test against. My understanding of the open source webkit project is that we have rights to deploy the framework with our application, and in reading postings and documentation, that embedding is not a difficult process. I can only assume that it's my understanding of XCode and apple projects that is falling short. At this point I have downloaded a few releases of the webkit project from svn. All compiled fine, so we proceeded with the 3.0 codebase. The only modifications I made was to change the Installation Directory for all four projects to "@loader_path\Frameworks". We did some initial tests using @executable_path, but they didn't seem to work. We assumed this to be an issue with the fact that it's a Java bundle, or the fact that webkit is being called through a jnilib sitting outside of the application bundle (but still in our app install directory). I'm testing this by renaming the system framework (/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework), and after compiling my jnilib, renaming the WebKitBuild directory of my webkit projects. Doing this, I'm fairly confident that the WebKit.framework IS being referenced using my relative path. The problem I'm running into is that the other frameworks (WebCore, JavaScriptCore, and possibly JavaScriptGlue), do NOT work from this relative path. If I put the WebKitBuild directory back, and only rename the WebKit.framework within WebKitBuild, I can successfully execute my app. This tells me (hopefully), that I'm using WebKit from a relative path, but WebCore and JavaScriptCore are being referenced from their original location. Again, I'm sure this is a silly mistake I've made due to lack of understanding. I'm under the impression that what I'm doing is possible. Could someone point me in the right direction? Thank you. -Adam. **************************************************************************** This email may contain material confidential to Pearson. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. ****************************************************************************

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Webkit link errors with msvc 2003
by rachid 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Hello, I'm trying to build Qt Webkit under msvc 2003, for this i maked some modifications in Webkit sources (because i had some compiles errors), the compile works, but on the link step i had errors like: Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 7.10.3077 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. link /LIBPATH:"c:\Qt\4.4.0\lib" /LIBPATH:"c:\Qt\4.4.0\lib" /NOLOGO /DEBU G /DLL /VERSION:4.40 /OUT:..\..\..\..\lib\QtWebKitd4.dll @C:\DOCUME~1\derdouri\L OCALS~1\Temp\nm132.tmp Creating library ..\..\..\..\lib\QtWebKitd4.lib and object ..\..\..\..\lib\Qt WebKitd4.exp RenderBox.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class WebCore::Qualif iedName const WebCore::HTMLNames::frameTag" (?frameTag@HTMLNames@WebCore@@3VQual ifiedName@2@B) HTMLNames.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class WebCore::Qualif iedName const WebCore::HTMLNames::frameTag" (?frameTag@HTMLNames@WebCore@@3VQual ifiedName@2@B) HTMLFrameSetElement.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class WebCo re::QualifiedName const WebCore::HTMLNames::frameTag" (?frameTag@HTMLNames@WebCo re@@3VQualifiedName@2@B) FrameLoader.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class WebCore::Qual ifiedName const WebCore::HTMLNames::frameTag" (?frameTag@HTMLNames@WebCore@@3VQu alifiedName@2@B) EventHandler.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class WebCore::Qua lifiedName const WebCore::HTMLNames::frameTag" (?frameTag@HTMLNames@WebCore@@3VQ ualifiedName@2@B) Frame.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class WebCore::QualifiedN ame const WebCore::HTMLNames::frameTag" (?frameTag@HTMLNames@WebCore@@3VQualifie dName@2@B) CSSStyleSelector.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class WebCore: :QualifiedName const WebCore::HTMLNames::frameTag" (?frameTag@HTMLNames@WebCore@ @3VQualifiedName@2@B) HTMLBodyElement.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "class WebCore:: QualifiedName const WebCore::HTMLNames::frameTag" (?frameTag@HTMLNames@WebCore@@ 3VQualifiedName@2@B) ........ ........ ........ Any ideas to resolve link problems thank for your help Rachid.

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native widgets
by Mark Volkmann 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Does WebKit use native widgets on all platforms? If not, does it use native widgets on any platforms? --- Mark Volkmann

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Where does WebKit end and Safari begin on Windows?
by Patrick Gostovic 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Hi List. My company is developing an in-store kiosk application using DHTML/Ajax, etc. It has to be Windows for a variety of reasons. The goal is to have a nice looking interface with lots of tasteful, fancy animations. We were initially planning to use Internet Explorer to maximize hardware peripheral integration (i.e. card reader, proximity sensor, etc.) and most kiosk management software vendors assume IE; but needless to say IE's performance is suboptimal. Firefox is much better. But Safari blows them all away in every respect - JavaScript performance, rendering speed of animations, overall prettiness, etc. My big question... How much of Safari's prowess can be attributed to WebKit? I ask because I have tried both Adobe Air's WebKit port and the latest QT QWebView widget and I just don't see the same results - they are both good, but not nearly as smooth and pretty. Why is Safari so much better, and is there any way to get that Safari experience in locked down fullscreen mode? Thanks for indulging. Patrick p.s. apologies if this is not the appropriate forum for this question :-).

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Get/Set flash attribute value using webkit
by Mugdha Jain 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

I have an application that uses webkit to play flash files on Mac. I need to know how I can get/set property(attribute) values (like scalemode) for flash using Webkit. For example, if the actionscript of the flash file contains statement like: _global.DesktopWindow.setScaleModeToNoScale(true); How can I get the value of scalemode after the flash file has loaded? I can get attribute value which was set using the html embed tag. Thanks for the help! Mugdha

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