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authorKai Koehne <kai.koehne@theqtcompany.com>2016-06-27 16:25:41 +0200
committerKai Koehne <kai.koehne@qt.io>2016-07-21 08:04:50 +0000
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Doc: Move WebKit comparison to porting guide
Change-Id: I75d3f5641ccd402ea1a167d14533b70df5744ff7 GPush-Base: 8ca4a41dfe6887c2637fe2e562f5314b56facd20 Reviewed-by: Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>
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\l{http://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-5.3/qml-qtwebkit-webview.html}{QWebView API} to use the
\l{Qt WebEngine} QWebEngineView.
+ \section1 Architecture
+
+ Chromium provides its own network and painting engines, which Qt WebEngine uses. This, among
+ other things, allows Qt WebEngine to provide better and more reliable support for the latest
+ HTML5 specification than Qt WebKit. However, Qt WebEngine is thus also heavier than Qt WebKit
+ and does not provide direct access to the network stack and the HTML document through C++ APIs.
+
\section1 Class Names
The Qt WebEngine equivalent of Qt WebKit C++ classes are prefixed by