Congrats on releasing this! On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Allan Sandfeld Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Good news everybody! > > QtWebKit 2.3.0 was tagged in gitorious yesterday and can be found at > https://gitorious.org/webkit/qtwebkit-23/trees/qtwebkit-2.3.0 with the tarball > at https://gitorious.org/webkit/qtwebkit-23/archive-tarball/qtwebkit-2.3.0 > > For those of you that don't know: QtWebKit 2.3 is a port of QtWebKit from Qt 5 > to Qt 4.8. It has most of the web-facing features, stability fixes and > performance improvements that QtWebKit in Qt 5 has, but has skipped anything > Qt 5 specific such as QQuickWebView, but has almost all improvements on the > WebKit1 side (QWebView). QtWebKit 2.3 also maintains API and ABI compatibility > with QtWebKit 2.2 from Qt 4.8, and is thereby an easy drop-in replacement. The > released version 2.3.0 has roughly the same WebKit version and patches as Qt > 5.0.2. > > Note that QtWebKit 2.3 is not an official Qt release, nor will be. We > recommend users to upgrade to Qt 5, but for those stuck with Qt 4.8 for one > reason or another, I would personally recommend trying out QtWebKit 2.3. I > have also had great feedback from the developers of the Rekonq, and Qupzilla > browsers, that also recommend users to try out 2.3, several distributions are > either packaging or planning to package it, the first being Arch Linux who has > been packaging QtWebKit 2.3 since the betas. > > Note that the sources are only buildable using the build-webkit tool, and > requires the QTDIR environment set even if only to /usr. The basic build- > command is "Tools/Scripts/build-webkit --qt --release --no-webkit2". If you > are packaging to x86, you might also want to add --no-force-sse2 since the > library would otherwise default to using SSE2 math. Additionally you can use > --qmakearg="CONFIG+=production_build" to link with less memory. Finally I have > added an option to include WebP support by adding DEFINES+=HAVE_LIBWEBP=1 to > the qmakearg. After building the you need to go to WebKitBuild/Release and run > make install. > > If you have any questions, ask here on this mailing-list or catch me on > FreeNode IRC #qtwebkit. > > Best regards > `Allan Sandfeld Jensen (carewolf) > _______________________________________________ > webkit-qt mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-qt
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