Overview of QtWebKit 2.2

QtWebKit is a web content engine based on the Open Source WebKit project, the same engine used by browsers such as ​Google Chrome and ​Safari from Apple. QtWebKit has broad support for modern web technologies and is compliant with typical web content. QtWebKit is developed as a part of the WebKit community, which enables every new release of QtWebKit to include the latest developments from the WebKit project.

QtWebKit has a C++ API that allows Qt applications to embed web content, and to examine and manipulate the web content. The QtWebKit C++ API is extensively documented in the QtWebKit documentation.

QtWebKit-2.2 was branched from the WebKit trunk on May of 2011 and includes several HTML5, CSS and JavaScript improvements when compared to QtWebKit-2.1 and QtWebKit-2.0 (see details below).

See also: QtWebKit-2.2 releases (trackers, download, repository, etc)

Candidate Experimental Web Developer features

• HTML5 File API (​http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/)
• Typed Array (​http://www.khronos.org/registry/typedarray/specs/latest/)
• HTML5 Hashchange Event (​http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/history.html#event-hashchange)
• DeviceMotion (​http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source-orientation.html)
• CSSOM View Module (​http://www.w3.org/TR/cssom-view/)

Changes since QtWebKit-2.1

(QtWebKit-2.1 was an independent release targeted at and supported on mobile platforms.)

The main changes since QtWebKit-2.1 are:

• TODO: fill-in notable changes on trunk since 2.1 was branched (June of 2010)
• Improved support for HTML5 media (audio/video) on desktop platforms;

Changes since QtWebKit-2.0 (Qt-4.7.*)

(QtWebKit-2.0 was the previous version supported on desktop and mobile platforms. It's the QtWebKit version included in Qt-4.7.)

These are the changes between QtWebKit-2.0 and QtWebKit-2.1 (combine them with the changes between QtWebKit-2.1 and QtWebKit-2.2 to have the full list)

Notable Web Developer features

• Spatial Navigation
• Touch Events
• Geolocation API
• Progress element and meter element
• Viewport meta tag
• Canvas element
• Application cache
• Web SQL Database
• Web Storage
• CSS Animations
• CSS Transitions
• CSS 2D Transforms
• CSS Text
• CSS Masks
• CSS ScrollBar Styles
• Native JSON parser

Note: HTML5 and CSS3 features are based on draft specifications that are subject to change.

See also

• QtWebKit-2.2 release page
• QtWebKit-2.1 features