[webkit-qt] API proposal for handling (some) hybrid use cases

[Simon Hausmann]

On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 09:51:05 AM ext Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
> I didn't mean that we will not support plugins at all, but we will not
> invest in them as well. Plugins have serious issues and especially on
> mobile devices with touch input etc. For this reason I guess we will
> follow Apple, Microsoft etc and not support plugins on our
> QTouchWebView.

Time will tell and things may change. But yeah, for the time being we have
bigger challenges and our priority is getting trunk WebKit2 into great shape.
Time is IMHO well spent right now on getting the process separation
right (i.e. determine the right things to delegate to the ui process vs. using
platform libraries in the web process) or getting the rendering design right
so that implementing CSS shaders becomes a rather simple thing.

Dawit, that's why plugins are of lower priority to us.

Simon

> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Dawit A <adawit at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen
> > <kenneth.christiansen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> 7) QWidgets inside a page: do we have users for this?
> >>
> >> Plugins are on the way out :-) Let's let this feature rest in piece.
> >
> > If that is the case, then how is QtWebKit2 going to deal with the
> > <embed> tag ? More specifically for embedding content type it does not
> > support. For example,
> >
> > <embed type="application/pdf"
> > src="http://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-quarterly-2011_Q2.pdf" width="75%"
> > height="400"/>
> >
> 
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> Kenneth Rohde Christiansen
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> Application and Service Frameworks, Nokia Danmark A/S
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