WebKit Demos for Qt4.4

The Qt4.4 Technology Preview 1 is out and webkit is integrated into it. It is the same code as on the public WebKit.git repository, actually the copy in Qt is always a bit behind as we do the development in the public git repository.


After integrating QtWebKit into Qt we needed a small demo application. So we wrote a small browser and the result can be found in demos/browser, an older snapshot can be seen below, and the rsync copy of Qt has a newer and better version. It makes a really good test case for our API and implementation. We see what bits are missing when doing interesting stuff, when trying to login and use webservices we see what is broken. So we started eating our own dog food and most of us enjoy it. This post gets written using this browser and a fully working gmail, flickr is quite near.


I hope you enjoy this small demo application and we will continue to improve this browser, QtWebKit and our Qt4.4 networking stack. So make sure to watch the rsync versions of Qt as it is highly addictive.

Inspecting the Web

WebKit offers two neat tools for web developers. This is Drosera a JavaScript debugger and the Web Inspector. Some weeks ago I wanted to find out how hard it would be to enable the WebInspector for the WebKit/Qt port and it is really easy. Almost everything of the Web Inspector is portable code, ready to use by the available ports. So everything one has to do is to implement the InspectorClient clas which accounts for a couple of hundred lines of C++ code and you are done. The code can be found in this git branch and this going to be merged to qtwebkit and trunk once we have sorted out #15938.


In the below screenshot you can see the WebKit/Qt and WebKit/Mac Web Inspector next to each other. You can spot some errors on this screenshot, e.g. the WebKit/Qt port doesn't render search menus yet and when using it you can see some other issues in the drawing and networking code. So the Web Inspector makes a perfect test tool as well.