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/webengine/doc/src/qtwebengine-overview.qdoc | 5 +---- src/webenginewidgets/doc/src/qtwebkitportingguide.qdoc | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'src') diff --git a/src/webengine/doc/src/qtwebengine-overview.qdoc b/src/webengine/doc/src/qtwebengine-overview.qdoc index c9c21d208..059c145bd 100644 --- a/src/webengine/doc/src/qtwebengine-overview.qdoc +++ b/src/webengine/doc/src/qtwebengine-overview.qdoc @@ -77,10 +77,7 @@ \section2 Qt WebEngine Core Module The Qt WebEngine 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, and - therefore Qt WebEngine provides better and more reliable support for the latest HTML5 - specification than Qt WebKit. However, Qt WebEngine is thus heavier than Qt WebKit and does - not provide direct access to the network stack and the HTML document through C++ APIs. + and painting engines and is developed tightly together with its dependent modules. Please note that Qt WebEngine 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. 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