TODO List for QtWebKit

Incoming

uncategorized issues that the developers still need to prioritize.

• 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
• Instead of loading a plugin for loading and doing playback of media files, we should use a full-window html5 media player based on our Phonon code.
• "Kinetic" support
  • Native scroll indicator instead of scrollbars. This should work for all frames and not just the mainframe.
  • Zoom to paragraph/image/etc example
  • Intelligent touch scroll, that takes the contents into account. Would be nice to be able to move widgets on igoogle around, still be able to scroll on google maps etc.
  • Add an API for controlling forms, like not showing a popdown for comboboxes, but letting the application handle it.

Things we want to do

• Research out-of-process plugins
• Research QtSvg vs. WebKit SVG
• Make WebKit more modular
• XSLT support with QtXmlPatterns.
• Layout tests in 4.5, then trunk
• Write examples, docs and screencasts
• Finish DOM API
• QtScript Integration

Things we should do

• Task maintenance (All)
• Improve plugin support (eg. windowless)
• 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
• Style-dependent scrolling (improvement to r41285)
• A17n support
• Check for new feature defines (i.e. ENABLED(3D_RENDERING))

Dogfood Items

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

Examples and Demos to be written

• how to use <object> in a web page
• HTML5 local/session storage
• using it with jQuery (Ariya) DONE: see ​http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/04/17/jquery-and-qwebelement/
• 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 (Ariya) DONE: see ​http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/03/20/google-suggest-made-easy/
• visual scraping (Ariya) DONE: see ​http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009/06/02/weather-applet-again/
• 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

Current TODO for first update of WebKit in Qt 4.6

DOM API Changes

• Extend documentation with lots of snippets.
• Implement the latest API changes:
  • Compare QWebElement::tagName(), prefix(), localName() and namespaceUri() with QXmlStreamReader names
  • Rename QRect QWebHitTestResult::enclosingBlock() const to QWebElement QWebHitTestResult::enclosingBlockElement() const
  • Replace QString QWebHitTestResult::linkTarget()const with QWebElement QWebHitTestResult::linkElement() const
  • Remove bool QWebHitTestResult::isScrollBar() const and make sure a null QWebHitTestResult is returned instead
  • Replace void QWebFrame::renderContents(...) with new RenderFlags enum in QWebPage.

Updating WebKit in Qt 4.6

Goal: Make a first beta release of QtWebKit for Qt 4.6, including the new QtWebKit DOM API.

• Review new API in trunk.
• Make sure it builds on all platforms it build with Qt 4.5. (including Windows/CE)

Deferred DOM API Items

• Research setInner/OuterXml on default constructed QWebElements.
• Add support for DOM events/listeners
  • Add QWebElement::connectEvent()
  • Add support for mapping JS events to Qt events (QMouseEvent, etc.)
  • Add support for pure JS events (QWebEvent?)
  • Add support for dispatching events from C++
• Add support for convenience functions on the selection/collection
• Investigate support for different backends (xml and/or query language).
• Need to add a documented method of retrieving the current selection as a QWebElementSelection, since the ::selection psuedo-element didn't make it into the current draft of css3-selectors.

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)
• Simple jquery-ui like effects.
• Ad-block for Arora
• Form completion (smart or not...)
• Implement Arora's clicktoflash plugin with QWebElement