Many people don’t know what my nickname means even german speaking ones. The direct translation would be tick, these animals that sit on leaves, bite people and suck the blood, the ones that can cary scary deseases. But there is another side to the word, a political one. In my youth this word was used to refer to punks and similar associates by right wing people, I was labeled this way. And this is nothing to be ashamed off, the…
Simon and Jasmin went through the API of QtWebKit. Most of the changes where changing names and parameters of methods, signals and slots. And some minor but important behaviour changes. The Plugin API is probably the only remaining feature for Qt4.4 and Lars and Simon have already progressed nicely. Simon went ahead and integrated QtWebKit into the Assistant on the way finding/marking of text was added to the QWebView and QWebPage API. Benjamin (icefox) continues adding the basic features to…
When working on WebKit and the platform layer you come to a point where your primary browser is going to be WebKit based (or already is because you use Safari, OmniWeb,…). If you happen to use a platform that is not developed by Apple (Qt, Gtk+, Wx) you are going to be the first to see certain issues. I’m currently in this fantastic situation and have issues to see, understand and resolve. This is a brief summary of two issues…
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…