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authorKai Koehne <kai.koehne@theqtcompany.com>2016-06-27 17:37:56 +0200
committerKai Koehne <kai.koehne@qt.io>2016-07-21 08:04:59 +0000
commitd29884456544a95e7b23600424d54bc85392ed6b (patch)
tree970c765a31a889e546b1426f731af52925621922 /src
parentd1a8eef9134fae8cd43fdbe2eee864a93497da90 (diff)
Doc: Condense documentation for Qt WebEngine Process
Change-Id: Idf18d236816aab12fb01e1b5725e5ad1c73dbaad Reviewed-by: Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@qt.io>
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\section2 Qt WebEngine Process
- The Qt WebEngine Process renders web pages and executes JavaScript.
+ The Qt WebEngine Process is a separate executable that is used to render web pages and
+ execute JavaScript. This mitigates security issues and isolates crashes caused by specific
+ content.
The document object model (DOM) of a page is constructed when the document is ready, typically
when the page is completely loaded. Therefore, executing scripts as soon as a document is
@@ -109,11 +111,6 @@
\note Chromium extensions, such as \c @include, \c @match, and \c @exclude, are not supported.
- Because the render process is separated from the GUI process, they should ideally share an
- OpenGL context to enable one process to access the resources uploaded by the other, such as
- images or textures. However, some inter-process communication is needed for safety and
- reliability, because it enables restarting a crashed process.
-
\section1 Embedding Web Content into Widget Based Applications
Use the QWebEngineView class to display web pages in the simplest way. Because it is a widget,