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=QtWebEngine=
[[Category:Developing with Qt::QtWebEngine]]


QtWebEngine is an attempt to integrate chromium’s fast moving web capabilities into Qt. It was introduced earlier this year [http://blog.qt.io/blog/2013/06/25/experimenting-with-chromium-and-qt/ on Digia’s Qt blog] ''[blog.qt.io]''
Qt WebEngine integrates Chromium's fast moving web capabilities into Qt.  


Our goal is to bring the latest and best implementation of the web platform into the universe of Qt. It is not just a port of the core <span class="caps">HTML</span>/CSS rendering engine, it is the entire Chromium platform. The integration with Qt focuses on an <span class="caps">API</span> that is easy to use, yet extensible. We also make no compromise on the graphics integration, integrating the layer rendering of Chromium directly into the OpenGL scene graph of QtQuick.
Our goal is to bring the latest and best implementation of the web platform into the universe of Qt. The integration with Qt focuses on an API that is easy to use, yet extensible. We also make no compromise on the graphics integration, integrating the layer rendering of Chromium directly into the OpenGL scene graph of Qt Quick.


==Trying it out==
==Relationship to Chromium==
Qt WebEngine uses code from the Chromium project. However, it is not containing all of Chrome/Chromium:


[[QtWebEngineHowToTry|Getting and building QtWebEngine]]
*Binary files are stripped out
*Auxiliary services that talk to Google platforms are stripped out, therefore there is no access to Google APIs like:
**Cloud Search API
**Geolocation API
**Google Drive API / SyncFileSystem API (no Chrome sync)
**Safe Browsing API
**Time Zone API
**Cloud Translation API
**Geocoding API
**Google Assistant API
**Google Calendar API
**Nearby Messages API
*The code is fixed to build on other compilers than Google's special modified version of clang.
*The codebase is modularized to allow use of system libraries like libpng, libjpeg, and many others.


[[QtWebEnginePortingFromQtWebKit|Porting QtWebKit applications to QtWebEngine]]
We do update to the latest Chromium version in use before a Qt release. After a release some bug fixes and security patches are backported. For LTS releases of Qt we might also update Chromium in a patch level release.


==Contributing==
==Subpages==
{{Special:PrefixIndex/QtWebEngine/}}


[[QtWebEngineContribute|Contributing to QtWebEngine]]
==Documentation==


==Frequently Asked Questions==
[http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-index.html Qt WebEngine]


===Q: On which platforms will it run?===
==Blog posts and Videos==


A: We intend to officially support QtWebEngine on:
[http://blog.qt.io/blog/2013/06/25/experimenting-with-chromium-and-qt/ Experimenting with Chromium and Qt (blog post)] (2013-06-25)<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc5zKGmeYN0 QtDD13 - Pierre Rossi - Introducing QtWebEngine (video)] (2013-10-07)<br />
[http://blog.qt.io/blog/2014/01/23/qt-webengine-technology-preview-available/ Qt WebEngine Technology Preview available (blog post)]  (2014-01-23)<br />
[http://www.ics.com/blog/building-qtwebengine Building QtWebEngine (ICS blog post)] (2014-04-23)<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_UumdWw1iI QTDD14 - QtWebEngine: learning to walk - Pierre Rossi (video)] (2014-10-07)<br />
[http://blog.qt.io/blog/2014/05/13/news-from-the-qt-webengine-team/ News from the Qt WebEngine Team (blog post)] (2014-05-13)<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW-oTBCj1JQ QtWS15 - Qt's Web Offering- An Overview, Allan Jensen (video)] (2015-10-06)<br />
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CTFxhBc_1I QtWS15 - QtWebEngine – Taming the beast, Kai Köhne (video)] (2015-10-07)


* Linux (x86, x86_64, x64)
==Bug Reports==
* Mac (clang x64, XCode version &gt;= 5.1)
* Windows (<span class="caps">MSVC</span> 2013 packages).
* [http://www.qt.io/download-enterprise-step-2/ Qt Enterprise for Application development &amp; Embedded device creation] ''[qt.io]''<br /> - Support for both Embedded Linux and Embedded Android


Full Android (Java/Dalvik) and iOS are not going to be supported where Qt <span class="caps">API</span>s to integrate the native WebViews are on the roadmap.
[https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG/component/20522 QtWebEngine component in bugreports.qt.io]


===Categories:===
==Mailing lists==


* [[:Category:Developing-with-Qt|Developing with Qt]]
[http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest interest@qt-project.org]<br />[http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qtwebengine qtwebengine@qt-project.org]
** [[:Category:Developing-with-Qt::QtWebEngine|QtWebEngine]]
 
==IRC==
 
Libera.Chat: #qtwebengine

Latest revision as of 13:42, 2 January 2023


Qt WebEngine integrates Chromium's fast moving web capabilities into Qt.

Our goal is to bring the latest and best implementation of the web platform into the universe of Qt. The integration with Qt focuses on an API that is easy to use, yet extensible. We also make no compromise on the graphics integration, integrating the layer rendering of Chromium directly into the OpenGL scene graph of Qt Quick.

Relationship to Chromium

Qt WebEngine uses code from the Chromium project. However, it is not containing all of Chrome/Chromium:

  • Binary files are stripped out
  • Auxiliary services that talk to Google platforms are stripped out, therefore there is no access to Google APIs like:
    • Cloud Search API
    • Geolocation API
    • Google Drive API / SyncFileSystem API (no Chrome sync)
    • Safe Browsing API
    • Time Zone API
    • Cloud Translation API
    • Geocoding API
    • Google Assistant API
    • Google Calendar API
    • Nearby Messages API
  • The code is fixed to build on other compilers than Google's special modified version of clang.
  • The codebase is modularized to allow use of system libraries like libpng, libjpeg, and many others.

We do update to the latest Chromium version in use before a Qt release. After a release some bug fixes and security patches are backported. For LTS releases of Qt we might also update Chromium in a patch level release.

Subpages

Documentation

Qt WebEngine

Blog posts and Videos

Experimenting with Chromium and Qt (blog post) (2013-06-25)
QtDD13 - Pierre Rossi - Introducing QtWebEngine (video) (2013-10-07)
Qt WebEngine Technology Preview available (blog post) (2014-01-23)
Building QtWebEngine (ICS blog post) (2014-04-23)
QTDD14 - QtWebEngine: learning to walk - Pierre Rossi (video) (2014-10-07)
News from the Qt WebEngine Team (blog post) (2014-05-13)
QtWS15 - Qt's Web Offering- An Overview, Allan Jensen (video) (2015-10-06)
QtWS15 - QtWebEngine – Taming the beast, Kai Köhne (video) (2015-10-07)

Bug Reports

QtWebEngine component in bugreports.qt.io

Mailing lists

interest@qt-project.org
qtwebengine@qt-project.org

IRC

Libera.Chat: #qtwebengine