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.

See also

• QtWebKit-2.2 release page
• QtWebKit-2.1 features