WebKit is an open-source browser engine with gecko (Mozilla Firefox
And Trident (also known as mshtml, the typographical engine used by IE ). At the same time, WebKit is also an Apple Mac OS X
The name of the System engine Framework Version, mainly used for Safari, dashboard, mail, and some other Mac OS XProgram. WebKit contains
The WebCore typographical engine and jscore engine come from KDE's khtml and KJS. Apple compared gecko and khtml
The latter is selected because it has a clear source code structure and extremely fast rendering speed.
The following figure shows the architecture of WebKit.
The following figure shows the architecture of QT-WebKit.
The two figures show the differences between QT-WebKit and WebKit:
1. QT kernel for text handling, painting, and networking
2. QT APIs are easier to use.
So what advantages does qt's integration of WebKit bring about:
1. quickly create applications that contain real-time network content and services
2. Integrate network and local content in an application
3. You can run developed web applications on different platforms.
In the following three layers, C ++ code is used for development. At the application layer, QT can support the most commonly used webpage design, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for development, this will make it possible for a large number of Web developers to develop QT applications.
Reference: http://software.intel.com/zh-cn/forums/showthread.php? T = 74515