QtWebKit?

[René J. V. Bertin]

> As far as I know, the "reboot" has stalled
> already.

There have been no new (pre)releases, but AFAIK work goes on in the actual repo, 
and periodic commits are made to the release branch.
QWE is just as stalled if you don't install each and every new release of it 
(which will often mean building it from source). And even if you do you probably 
don't get the latest WE.

> Personally I would not encourage anyone to use QtWebKit at
> this point, no matter how lighter is compared to WebEngine.

Lighter and typically a lot faster.

I wouldn't encourage anyone either to use QWE if they expect it to be that much 
more secure than QWK, but instead use one of the big browser names that push 
regular updates.

For my PIM needs I could most likely do with QTextBrowser coupled with an easy 
way to open too complex content in my default web browser. I maintain a KDevelop 
patch that does the equivalent for its builtin documentation browser.

> AFAICS, not doable. WebEngine handles things async, WebKit does not, or
> vice versa. It's going to be an unmaintainable mess.

Is there at least a central class that provides the interface or are we talking 
about direct calls into QWE API in "random" locations?

FWIW, at this point I don't care whether or not "you" will support anything but 
QWE (it's been clear long enough you won't, and the notion of "support" in free 
software, well, let's say it mostly gives me the giggles).

R.