TODO List for QtWebKit

Incoming

uncategorized issues that the developers still need to prioritize.

• We don't have any accessibility support
• QWebFrame should have a function to access the QWebHistory for that frame.
• There should be an QWebIconDatabase class that gives you notifications when the icon has been loaded.
• Autotest Coverage
• header such as "webkitversion.h" that contains the version in a define
• Way to access list of files and progress on downloading them (i.e. be able to make an activity window)
• Ability to pass the handling of listbox/select elements to the application

Parking Lot

• KDE Integration (WebKitKDE)

Things we want to do

• Research out-of-process plugins
• Research QtSvg vs. WebKit SVG
• Make WebKit more modular
• XSLT support with QtXmlPatterns.

Things we should do

• Task maintenance (All)
• Improve plugin support
• Improve Media-Element support
• Make the build more configurable in Qt
• Research memory usage
• Research performance
• Windowless plugins on X11
• Extend APIs
• Review new APIs in trunk

Dogfoot Items

• Wallet integration
• Arora extensions
• Webclips
• Inline editing example

Short-term items for the next 2-3 months

• Layout tests in 4.5, then trunk (Tor Arne, Simon)
• Write examples, docs and screencasts (Ariya, all)
• Finish DOM API (Tor Arne, Simon, Staikos)
• QtScript Integration (Ariya, Kent)

Examples and Demos to be written

• how to use <object> in a web page
• HTML5 local storage
• jQuery in QtWebKit (a simple one, just get one starts quickly)
• Flash inside QWebView (like Girish's video feed example but simpler)
• restricting web view to a certain set of URLs
• convert HTML to PDF, continue from Kavindra's work
• using QWebView with Graphics View
• a utility monitor web sites, sit on the systray, display the thumbnail
• simple example (without model/view) on how to use history and bookmarks
• google suggest
• how to extend QWebView to handle e.g. FTP
• cookie handling
• XML Query for feed parser/reader

Documentation improvements

• Overview diagram between all QWebFoo class
• Diagram/description of the relation between QtWebKit and QtNetwork
• Using HTML files and images from the resource system
• Import CSV example from QQ to Qt tree

DOM API Backlog

Let's try to get the thing done(tm).

• Implementing iterators/foreach support.
• Investigate build with older Qt versions without #ifdefs (Qt < 4.5)
• Look at functions from jquery cheat sheet and see where in our API they would fit.
• XML completeness, namespace support
• Add obvious missing functions.
• Full documentation.
• Demos & Examples.
• Make it easy to implement effects on top of the API.
• Add support for "special" functions from the IDL files, like submitting forms and other element specific functions. (for example convenience for raw QtScript code: element.scriptValue().resolve("submit").call(element.scriptValue(), args..); )
• Investigate support for different backends (xml and/or query language).

Ideas for Examples & Demos

• A tool to create selections visually, built on top of the same API. Include a lineedit where you can type a selector and it visualizes the selected elements. (both ways)
• A simple selector builder.
• Simple jquery-ui like effects.