Introducing the Qt WebEngine-blink

http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/09/12/introducing-the-qt-webengine/

http://qt-project.org/wiki/QtWebEngine

摘取的部分要点：

After spending some time researching and looking at both alternatives, we have now come to the conclusion, that we will base our future Web engine on Chromium. The Qt WebEngine. There are many reasons that lead to this decision:

• Chromium has a cross-platform focus, with the browser being available on all major desktop platforms and Android. The same is no longer true of WebKit, and we would have had to support all the OS’es on our own in that project.
• There are many things that are available out-of-the box from Chromium, which would require a lot of work for us to support ourselves in WebKit. One example, is the whole platform/OS adaptation that we can simply re-use. Multimedia and new HTML5 features such as WebRTC are working out-of the-box and don’t require any Qt-specific code.
• As using Chromium simplifies handling the OS integration, this allows us to spend additional time to focus on the upper layers to provide a great and easy-to-use API and a seamless integration into Qt as possible.
• We are seeing that Chromium is being developed with very strict control on quality. This simplifies our testing efforts and will allow us to provide a more stable and higher quality Web engine.
• Chromium will allow us to do a better and more performant integration with both widgets and the Qt Quick scene graph than we would be able to do with WebKit

Finally, we are seeing that Chromium is currently by far the most dynamic and fastest moving browser available. Basing our next-generation Web engine on Chromium is a strategic and long-term decision.