Re: WebKit for Otter
Reply #13 –
@Josh M, QtWebKit cannot be directly compared to any version of upstream WebKit, AFAIK last big sync was done last year and since then they simply apply selected patches and add own fixes.
So it's more like a fork than just a port.
We could try to do our own fork of engine (easiest way would be to have a set of patches on top of upstream QtWebKit) but that would be very big effort (and pain for end users or people responsible for packaging), especially after Apple will abandon it in favor of WebKit2.
We can reconsider that in future, so far we have too limited manpower to handle it...
@Macallan, nah, in case of source code of Qt 5.4.0 beta all modules (except QtWebKit and QtWebEngine) are 491 MiB in total (including documentation which adds extra megabytes) while QtWebEngine (Blink) alone is 781 MiB and QtWebKit is 251 MiB.