Introducing the Qt WebEngine

At the Digia blog, Lars Knoll announces that Qt has decided to migrate its web rendering engine from WebKit to Chromium. First among the reasons listed is that "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." Knoll also cites Chromium's better support for recent HTML5 features, and says that "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. We strongly believe that the above facts will lead to a much better Web engine for Qt than what we can offer with Qt WebKit right now. "