From d199c598cd7756b03e032c7f01e58edebf8e8d21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kai Koehne Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:25:41 +0200 Subject: Doc: Move WebKit comparison to porting guide Change-Id: I75d3f5641ccd402ea1a167d14533b70df5744ff7 GPush-Base: 8ca4a41dfe6887c2637fe2e562f5314b56facd20 Reviewed-by: Leena Miettinen --- src/webenginewidgets/doc/src/qtwebkitportingguide.qdoc | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/webenginewidgets/doc') diff --git a/src/webenginewidgets/doc/src/qtwebkitportingguide.qdoc b/src/webenginewidgets/doc/src/qtwebkitportingguide.qdoc index c21a58d73..5822f41b7 100644 --- a/src/webenginewidgets/doc/src/qtwebkitportingguide.qdoc +++ b/src/webenginewidgets/doc/src/qtwebkitportingguide.qdoc @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ \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 -- cgit v1.2.3