<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style="">Hello everybody,</div><div class="" style="">I've had quite good results with QtWebKit 2.3.3 + Qt 4.8.5 + DirectFB on a MIPS platform. (2000 DMIPS)</div><div class="" style="">Now I've decided to make the big step and give Qt 5.3.0 a try.</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">Same platform but this time I go directly on OpenGL ES 2.0 instead of using DirectFB.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">After quite a pain with the ICU library, I've been able to successfully run some QtWebKit examples and everything is up and running !</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">The results are not bad at all. If you are interested, I can share those I collected from either the Qt4 and the Qt5 system.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica
Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">Now I've got a few questions, mostly concerning the overall footprint, as it's around 30% bigger than the Qt4 system.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">############ Footprint</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">1) on an embedded platform, print support is useless to me. Unfortunately, it seems there is no "configure" way to disable it on Qt5, so the consequence is that QtWebKit includes the print support too. Is there any way to disable them both ? This could save me around 1MB !</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue
Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">2) QtWebKit's qmake process reports that both Webkit1 and Webkit2 are built into the final library. Are they both really required ?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">I've read on Allan's presentation made in November in San Franscisco that Webkit2 is related to QML development. I am keen to go that way, so I'd prefer to have a QtWebKit library with just the WebKit2 support. Is this possible ?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"
class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">3) If #2 is possible, is there any QML browser example that I can take a look at ? The QtWebKit examples package doesn't include any. The only QML examples are for Flickr and YouTube.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"
class="">############ Performances<br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">1) it seems that font rendering is much slower on QtWebKit 5 but I can't be 100% sure if this depends on Qt or OpenGL. Can anyone explain the low level bits that take care of this part ?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color:
transparent;" class="">The reference test I used is this: http://www.craftymind.com/factory/guimark2/HTML5TextTest.html</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">On Qt4+DirectFB it does 0,48fps, while on Qt5+OGL it does 0,1fps.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">2) Similar to the above, this
test</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">http://www.craftymind.com/factory/guimark2/HTML5GamingTest.html</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">does 6,05fps on Qt4+DFB and 2,04fps on Qt5+OGL. Is there any explanation for this ?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family:
HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">3) I've ran all the benchmarks with the "browser" example, which is QtWidget-based. I'm wondering if a QML/SceneGraph based browser could boost the rendering up and give much better results. Anyone has had experiences/results on this ?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">Sorry for the long email. I hop someone (Allan ? :) ) can pick this up and
enlighten me on some aspects.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">Thanks in advance !</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class="">Massimo</div></div></body></html>