KDE Review: Arianna

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sun Feb 26 18:55:03 GMT 2023


El diumenge, 26 de febrer de 2023, a les 4:53:05 (CET), Kevin Kofler va 
escriure:
> Carl Schwan wrote:
> > I want to move Arianna to KDE review. Arianna is an ebook reader
> > currently only supporting epubs. This is based on top of epub.js
> > and QtWebEngine for the actualy rendering of ebooks as doing that
> > from scratch in Qt would be too much work.
> 
> Okular has an EPub backend using libepub and QTextDocument. How does
> Arianna compare to that?

Okular is probably much worse, QTextDocument is not good for showing HTML-like 
content.

Cheers,
  Albert

> I would expect native code to be more efficient
> than JavaScript *especially* on mobile devices, which are apparently
> Arianna's main target. But I do not know whether there are, e.g., EPub
> documents that Arianna can render and Okular cannot, so that is why I am
> asking how they compare.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler






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