Closed baudren closed 8 years ago
As a first step, I checked that Chromium (on windows) handles local files well - it reads perfectly our currently generated html files (so with just one css). Incidentally, it does a better job than Firefox at this (Firefox does not interpret css when reading local file).
Since QWebEngine is using Chromium, this bides well for our purpose.
just to clear things up: Firefox handles css in local files, the path to our local css is just in a format that firefox doesn't recognize. If you correct the path (IIRC adding http://
is enough) the css is handled correctly
Thanks to @egolus try outs, we now know that everything works, so all is good and the refactoring will bring really nice things to the table. Thanks for the work!
We should make a small proof of concept to check that the QWebEngine can indeed be a significant improvement over the QWebView. Among other things, we need to be sure that