Transition WebKit to WebEngine

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Robert,

As I'm (slowly) managing to stop procrastinating, I'll finish the settings
overhaul that I started and will look at this.

Tomaz

Em 10 de ago de 2016 18:32, "Robert Helling" <helling at atdotde.de> escreveu:

> Hi,
>
> I started to work on the transition to WebEngine, here is what I got so
> far:
>
>
> In current master, WebKit is used in three places 1) user manual, 2)
> Facebook connection, 3) printing
>
> As I understand it, the situation is as follows:
>
> re 1) With this patch, the user manual works.
>
> re 2) FB should also work (at least it compiles, minus one reference to
> the cookie jar). But at least for me, FB integration is currently also
> missing in current master (I have no idea why, ccmake says yes to FB), so I
> could not test.
>
> re 3) This is hard and (at least currently) beyond my powers. In master,
> to render the page for printing, html elements in the page are accessed to
> get the page breaks right and then (parts of the) page is rendered to the
> printer. With WebEngine, according to the transition documents, you cannot
> access html elements anymore. You are supposed to do this in Javascript and
> then invoke some callback function from there. Too bad I know virtually
> nothing about Javascript. And then, the rendering to the printer is
> probably also different. There is a new functionality to render a
> QWebEngineView to a pdf file, but I don’t know how that handles page
> breaks. So, currently, large parts of the printing functionality are
> commented out and consequently, with this, there is currently no printing.
>
> There is another difference between WebEngine and WebKit: The new approach
> does not go through the QNetWorkManager anymore but accesses the net
> directly. This might bring new problems with cookies, proxies etc.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Best
> Robert
>
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