[webkit-qt] kde-qt-webkit

[Jesus Sanchez-Palencia]

Hi! It's always nice to see more and more stuff coming out of QtWebKit.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Andrea Diamantini <adjam7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Given qtwebkit devs intention to no more develop the WebKit1 bits of the qt
> port and considering the needs of kde webkit browsers (you may know I'm just
> developing one), I decided to try working a bit on it with some minimal
> targets.
> In my idea, kde-qt-webkit releases should be drop-in replacement for the
> qtwebkit lib provided with qt 4.x, so that we can i.e. compile kdewebkit
> against this new library without problems. In fact, no real kde integration
> will be provided (that is, kio and k- classes will continue living outside
> webkit code). At least for the qt4/kde4 release cycle.

I'm not a KDE contributor myself so I might be missing something here,
but I don't get this. If you say we have no more intention to develop
QtWebKit 1 and given that now Qt is under Open Governance, wouldn't
the solution being you guys stepping in and working on QtWebKit 1
trunk to get your patches upstream? In other words, why isn't KDE
interested in developing QtWebKit 1 instead of forking it to something
else?

Cheers!
jesus



>
> Targets for this port are:
>
> - let the branch synced with svn webkit master.
>
> - merge Lindsay Mathieson work about spellcheck support
>
> - let html5 audio/video work as best as possible, eventually switching back
> to the phonon implementation (and that's because I cc'ed in this mail Harald
> Sitter, actual phonon maintainer)
>
> - (eventually) let (kde-)-qt-webkit compile with cmake
>
> - fix some of the kdewebkit integration known issues pending like (and here
> is adawit cc):
>
> * [QtWebKit] Form completion like the one available in native Qt widgets
> such
>  as QLineEdit is missing due to lack of access to form elements.
>  See http://webkit.org/b/36668.
>
> and so on
>
> - do some bugfixing and gain some webkit development experience.
>
> - backport at least one fix :)
>
>
> The idea is just to work on this until kde5 (whose release data is probably
> comparable with that of qt 5.1) and then decide again what to do (basically
> dropping out WebKit1 support and moving to qt5/webkit2 or continue this
> experience becoming a "more official" full kde webkit port.
>
> Hints and comments are welcome.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea Diamantini.
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