[Qgis-developer] QGIS maptips and HTML-display

[Nathan Woodrow]

That would be a very cool feature.  If I had the time I would have a
chop at it but such as life :)

- Nathan

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the context of the recent discussions around the hotlink plugin:
>
> Wouldn't it be fun if HTML would be supported in QGIS maptips and they would
> be displayed with a Webkit instance?
>
> That way we could display images located on the web in the maptips and we
> could also include little charts and our own text with the charting library
> of choice on our webserver.
>
> I checked recently and it seems like rich-text formatting is supported (e.g.
> <p/>, <br/>, <b/>, etc.) but not full HTML.
>
> Would it technically possible to display a Webkit instance instead of the
> traditional maptip?
>
> Of course it would also be cool if the new expression engine would be
> supported in the maptips ...
>
> Just dreaming loud,
>
> Andreas
>
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