WebKit Status 2017

mrjj

Welcome to the forum:

Starting from Qt 5.6 release the WebKit classes are removed from official binary distribution of Qt.
https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.6
(Removed Modules section)

However, each Qt release has corresponding QtWebKit sources that are available at
http://download.qt.io/community_releases.
Linux distributions and other package systems usually provide binary packages for QtWebKit
based on these sources so you can install QtWebKit module just like you could do it before.

You can also build them yourself
https://wiki.qt.io/Building_WebKit_with_Qt_5.6_beta_on_Windows_8.1_x64
"official" QtWebKit releases
But that is not the easy route for beginners.

The alternative is to use
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-overview.html

However, when webengine is not an option, there is the QtWebKit reboot project
providing prebuilt packages

https://github.com/annulen/webkit/releases
Courtesy of @Konstantin-Tokarev.
Thank you on behalf of the Qt community. ㋡

Konstantin Tokarev

A few comments:

First and foremost: you should not use version released with Qt (http://download.qt.io/community_releases) in any applications that allow user to do web surfing on untrusted content. QtWebKit releases corresponding to Qt 5.2 - 5.9 are based on WebKit branch from 2013 and have lots of unfixed security vulnerabilities. To the contrast, QtWebKit at https://github.com/annulen/webkit is based on branch from 2016
You can use official sources from qt.io in case ~~you need QML API (not yet finished in my branch), or~~ if you cannot use updated QtWebKit because of changed system requirements. There are probably no other valid reasons to do that, and keep in mind warning above.
Note that documentation of QtWebKit is available online at http://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-5.5/qtwebkit-index.html, it is relevant for Qt 5.6 and all newer versions

In any case, it is a bad idea to continue using Qt 5.5.1 because of QtWebKit. You should update to latest stable (or LTS) Qt version, and use QtWebKit from https://github.com/annulen/webkit/releases, or in case it is not suitable for some reason, from http://download.qt.io/community_releases. Please contact me if you if something is preventing you from using QtWebKit TP5 besides reasons that were listed above.

UPD QML API is supported since QtWebKit 5.212.0-alpha

Konstantin Tokarev

Feature-wise comparison of QtWebKit reboot with official sources:

https://github.com/annulen/webkit/wiki/Comparison-with-QtWebKit-5.6

Note that we are very close to feature parity now, i.e. there are very little features that work with legacy QtWebKit and are not yet supported with reboot, and their number is constantly lowering.

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