QWebView or QWebEngineView

Question

Are there any functional differences between QWebView and QWebEngineView? If I understand correctly, QWebView is webkit, while QWebEngineView is blink. Are there any differences to the programmer? Does one offer more customization of look & feel over the other?

Answer 1

I would give QtWebEngine a try. It is replacing QtWebKit for a reason.

If you control the HTML that is getting rendered, then it probably doesn't hurt to use QWebKit. Just make sure you test your pages beforehand.

QWebView uses WebKit as the backend.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qwebview.html#details

QWebEngineView uses Chromium as the backend.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qwebengineview.html#details

WebKit is what is used in Konqueror on Linux and Rekonq. Its not bad, but its not as robust across general (and often imperfect) web pages/html in my opinion.

Chromium is a much newer, faster and more robust engine.

I don't know all the technical details specifically, but QWebEngine is a big step in the right direction. I've found this mostly from my own experimenting and empirical usage.

To give WebKit a decent try, look at this project and try a variety of pages:

http://qtweb.net/

https://github.com/magist3r/QtWeb

Here is some more info about QtWebEngine v QtWebKit

http://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit

http://wiki.qt.io/QtWebKit