[QGIS-Developer] Outdated WebKit engine version in QGIS

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 at 15:24, Nguyen, Huy Minh via QGIS-Developer
<qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
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> I have been using WebKit engine from the PyQt library built in QGIS 3.30 when developing QGIS plugin in Python to load web pages directly in QGIS. The Webkit engine used seems to be very outdated and not possible to render modern web pages. For example, the engine used in QGIS 3.30 dated back to 2016: AppleWebKit/602.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) QGIS3 Version/10.0 Safari/602.1.
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> Is there any chance to update the built-in Webkit engine version in next release of QGIS ?
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> Otherwise, can the WebKit engine be updated locally and provided to the application ?
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> Does QGIS offer any other built-in alternatives, like the Qt WebEngine or other web engine with python bindings ?

It's an extremely messy and painful situation, but ultimately the
answer is NO. There's no alternative, no way of updating the webkit
version used by QtWebkit, and Qt Webengine CANNOT be used as it stands
in QGIS.

Nyall

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