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authorAllan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jensen@theqtcompany.com>2016-07-29 14:09:05 +0200
committerAllan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jensen@theqtcompany.com>2016-08-02 12:00:57 +0200
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/5.6' into 5.7
Conflicts: src/3rdparty src/core/resources/resources.gyp src/webengine/doc/src/qtwebengine-overview.qdoc src/webenginewidgets/api/qwebenginepage.cpp src/webenginewidgets/api/qwebenginescriptcollection.cpp src/webenginewidgets/api/qwebenginescriptcollection_p.h tests/auto/widgets/qwebenginepage/BLACKLIST And readded newly in 5.6 enabled tests to the BLACKLIST. Change-Id: I4ab1fc54ebfaaf940df81b0d8d6bdd15cae8b7c4
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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