@theDAX said:
About QtWebkit (WebkKit2 according to me) and QtWebWidgets (WebKit1 according to me).
Well what you say sounds interesting if they both are based on WebKit2 (and I realy do hope you're right so I can stick to WebKit2)
BUT.......but .....this link shows me that it is in fact not:
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebkitexamples-index.html
Sorry, you're right -- I misunderstood what Allan said.
About the Linux maintainers and the availability of QtWebEngine
See this link where the maintainers talk about compiling and packaging (it does'nt look good for QtWebEngine there). Note: I got it working but at a pretty labour intensive price.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=QtWebEngine-Mess-Debian
and this one:
http://kde-core-devel.kde.narkive.com/LJ3pjpxp/distros-and-qtwebengine
Read my link above. It describes how Qt 5.6 will address these issues.
About QtWebKit2 on Android and iOS
You cant find it on the website of Qt but when I download the Qt online installer for Linux, I see in there the option to download the technology preview of QtWebKit for Android and iOS....... now how about that ;-)
That sounds like a bug in the installer. (Did you try to run Qt WebKit on Android and iOS?)
About performance
That is my own observation using the examples. It is not that the WebEngine itself is slow..... it drags my userinterface to a crawl when I compare that to using webkit. This might because it is running in a VM with and without 3D accelerated...... but I do not have that issue with WebKit1...... but that has other issues though ;-)
Yeah, I recommend doing benchmarks on physical machines, not virtual machines.
The force of Google
There might be WebKit2 for Android and for iOS (without Google effort, see Technology preview)
There is QtWebEngine (with Google effort) but NOT for Android...... why?
Why, when Google itself has one for all Android versions...... Why is there not a Qt version of it for Android? That is what makes me believe that Google wants to control that part themself (and not by Qt developers or developers using Qt that can make an alternative version for Android).
There is no Qt WebKit for Android or iOS.