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oui

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Registered: 2013-01-20

Posts: 21

qt5-webengine

as this one is not available in Debian stable (and only fragments of it in the actual Debian9 RC2) I don't understand what is it... is that an old webkit like environment? is that the new webkit environment of future?

i refuse firefox.

this is an delicate position as all the non-Microsoft-world seems to become more and more totaly dependant of it...

and I look for other browsers having to minimal performances:

- be completely compatible with flashplugin.so , original version from Adobe
- be equiped with spell checking (as you perhaps/probably see now, I have no spell checking now in my actual browser! And I need spell check as I did never learn English and, as so much people in the world, I have to use English...).

I did try in the last days different browser

- luakit, based on webkit 1 in the used binary
  one of the best actual not-firefox browsers, but so old, Webkit1 !!!
- xombrero, dictionnaries are usuable
  but only separatelly if you use a different ~/.xombrero.conf pro language and you can't change in the same document or have to use all dictionaries
  (the word exists in ONE language, but which one?)
  flash works concerning sounds but no picture, not very good..;
- qupzilla old version based on webkit, flash works, no spell checking
- konqueror: a lot of crashes
- rekonq: good, old, not maintened any more, less quantity of crashes but also crashes as in konqueror

next detail is that I use ibus...

some (actual) browsers seems to be more and less compatible with ibus ;-) (the dead keys do not work properly else in EN). my old webkit based version of qupzilla seems to be the most compatible: turning in EN (English), the keyboard works best. And Shift+Space is enough to turn into Korean for example...

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,632

Re: qt5-webengine

QtWebEngine is a framework that implements Google's Blick web engine, which itself is a fork from WebKit.
While WebKit itself is not deprecated, various frameworks around it have security issues and are thus mostly treated as deprecated (including QtWebKit). So in a sense, QtWebEngine is an effort to replace QtWebKit one day.

I can't respond to the rest of your post, as I only see personal complaints about some web browsers in there (some even bordering into bikeshed-zone), but not really any questions...

Last edited by ayekat (2017-03-06 09:49:18)

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,456

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Re: qt5-webengine

- luakit, based on webkit 1 in the used binary
  one of the best actual not-firefox browsers, but so old, Webkit1 !!!

I don't think luakit has had any noteworthy development in over 4 years.  But if you liked luakit and are interested in webengine, I don't know how you haven't found qutebrowser.

Qutebrowser seems to be the current browser for any former luakit/dwb users.

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teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 578

Re: qt5-webengine

@ayekat That was a very interesting article, and the comments. Thanks for posting it. I use WebKit2 in my scripts frequently because it works well and gives one access to webkits script engine, dom, ability to create a tree out of resources etc. I really appreciate posts like that.

tux.lector

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2017-02-19

Posts: 17

Re: qt5-webengine

Why refusing firefox ?

Flash.. what it is good for nowadays, anyway ?

ps: pepperflash can be imported into firefox, in other words, firefox can use pepperflash ...

Last edited by tux.lector (2017-03-06 16:18:43)

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