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diff --git a/src/core/doc/src/qtwebengine-overview.qdoc b/src/core/doc/src/qtwebengine-overview.qdoc index 3937ca9bb..3a5d30338 100644 --- a/src/core/doc/src/qtwebengine-overview.qdoc +++ b/src/core/doc/src/qtwebengine-overview.qdoc @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ /*! \page qtwebengine-overview.html \title Qt WebEngine Overview + \ingroup explanations-webtechnologies The \QWE module provides a web browser engine that makes it easy to embed content from the World Wide Web into your Qt application on platforms that do not have a native web engine. @@ -43,8 +44,13 @@ dedicated profile for a \e {private browsing} mode, where no information is permanently saved. \note The \QWE Widgets module uses the \l{Qt Quick Scene Graph}{Qt Quick scene graph} - to compose the elements of a web page into one view. This means that the UI process - requires OpenGL ES 2.0 or OpenGL 2.0 for its rendering. + to compose the elements of a web page into one view. + + The content is rendered using the graphics card (GPU) capabilities. The scene + graph, in turn, relies on the Qt Rendering Hardware Interface as an abstraction + layer for the different capabilities and APIs a GPU might feature. For more + advice on how to tweak the rendering pipeline, see therefore + \l{Rendering via the Qt Rendering Hardware Interface}. \section2 Qt WebEngine Module @@ -58,6 +64,9 @@ The \QWE core is based on the \l {Chromium Project}. Chromium provides its own network and painting engines and is developed tightly together with its dependent modules. + Even though the QtNetwork stack is not used, its setup can be synchronized with the \QWE. + See \l {Proxy Support}, \l {Managing Certificates}, \l {Client Certificates}, and + \l {QWebEngineCookieStore} for more details. \note \QWE is based on Chromium, but does not contain or use any services or add-ons that might be part of the Chrome browser that is built and delivered by Google. @@ -65,10 +74,19 @@ \l{https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/chromium_browser_vs_google_chrome.md}{overview} that is part of the documentation in the \l {Chromium Project} upstream source tree. - This version of \QWE is based on Chromium version 94.0.4606, with additional security - fixes from newer versions. The Chromium version can also be read at runtime using the + The Chromium version used is the one used by the latest stable Chrome version at the time of Qt feature freeze + for the current version of \QWE. Additional security patches are cherry picked from newer Chrome releases on + every patch release, security patches released in time for the Qt patch release freeze will be included. + If Chrome releases critical fixes outside our release window, the next patch release is sped up to ensure a + patched \QWE is released before the patch details goes public. + + If you need a newer \QWE beyond security fixes, and can not update all of Qt, \QWE supports building with + older version of Qt back to the last Qt LTS. For instance \QWE 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5 can all be built with Qt 6.2. + In Qt LTS releases, \QWE may be fully replaced with such a newer version to make security patching easier. + + The relevant Chromium versions in question can also be read at runtime using the \l qWebEngineChromiumVersion() method, and \l qWebEngineChromiumSecurityPatchVersion() - to read the current patch level. You can also find the versions in the QtWebEngine + to read the current security patch level. You can also find the versions in the \QWE sources in the CHROMIUM_VERSION file. \section2 Qt WebEngine Process @@ -150,7 +168,7 @@ The following sample QML application loads a web page using the \l{WebEngineView::}{url} property: - \quotefromfile webenginequick/minimal/main.qml + \quotefromfile minimal/main.qml \skipto import \printuntil /^\}/ @@ -204,7 +222,7 @@ open SSL connections. Instead, \QWE uses the root CA certificates from the operating system to validate the peer's certificate. - The \l{WebEngineCertificateError::error} and \l{QWebEngineCertificateError::Type} enumerations + The \l{WebEngineCertificateError::type} and \l{QWebEngineCertificateError::Type} enumerations provide information about the types of certificate errors that might occur. The errors can be handled by using the WebEngineView::certificateError QML method or by connecting to the QWebEnginePage::certificateError signal. |