[WebKit-devel] KDE Webkit status update...

[Dawit A.]

This is a quick status update of the work completed in KDE's webkit part. 
Since I am both too lazy and short on time to update 
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/WebKit/TODO, here you go:

#1 Full integration with KDE components such as KIO and KCookiejar ; so for 
example the cookies stored when using webkitpart will be available if you 
switch over to khtml.

#2 History navigation should now work correctly.

#3 Qt's built-in flash support should work with the following exceptions and 
conditions:

   ** If you change the default user-agent, then expect the browser to crash
       when you leave a site that contains flash content. Dunno the cause
       because the crash occurs inside the flash plugin.

   ** You might experience random crashes if "qt4-gtk-engine" is installed on
       your machine and you visit sites that have flash content. No idea why
       this happens as the backtrace I get is useless.

#4 Link navigation 

    ** "mailto:" url as well as directory based protocols such as ftp should
        now work correctly.

    ** Link redirection to text documents, actually any non-html document 
        that does not contain a <title> tag,  should now work as expected. 

#5 Konqueror plugin support:

   ** Searchbar plugin has been fixed so that it is available when using
       webkitpart.

   ** Partial support for the adblock plugin. Currently we only use the rules
       to block ads.


What major tasks are left ?
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#1 There is much work left to do before this engine becomes useful to many 
more people and I am sure things will improve greatly just by the mere release 
of an updated webkit with Qt 4.6. Until then here are some of the major 
features/functionailty that are still pending:

#2 Form completions aka KWallet integration. This cannot be easily implemented 
until Qt 4.6 [QWebElement]

#3 Better integration with all Konqueror's plugin. This will involve changing 
the plugins not to be khtml specific and/or adjusting the parts api so that the 
functionality these plugins need can be implemented by any rendering engine. 
Anyhow, this needs further discussion/debate.

#4 The in-page searching (CTRL+F) needs TLC. I am almost done with this and it 
will be commited soon.

#5 Major work on the KIO side of things on how requests are scheduled. This is 
probably KDE 4.4 or later stuff and should not have any visible effect to the 
end user.

#5 Implementing all missing khtml/konqueror features that can also be made 
available in kdewebkit/konqueror.

#6 Bug fixes, bug fixes and more bug fixes...