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Overview of QtWebKit 2.2
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 during the past year;
- Support for HTML 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
- 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.
JavaScript JIT
Just-in-time (JIT) compilation for JavaScript works on the following platforms (some of them not officially supported):
- Mac OS X, 64-bit and 32-bit
- Windows desktop platforms when using Microsoft Visual C++ or gcc 4.1 or higher (MinGW). 32-bit build only; JIT currently doesn't work on 64-bit builds on Windows.
- Linux on x86 platforms with gcc 4.1 or higher
- Linux on ARM (Thumb-2 JIT is not currently used)
- Linux on MIPS architecture, maintained by MIPS Technologies.
- Symbian
Netscape Plug-in API
QtWebKit-2.2 includes the Netscape Plug-in API on X11, Windows, and Mac OS X.
