[Qgis-user] Announcing QEP 420: Restore the print layout HTML item for QGIS 4

[Nyall Dawson]

An ongoing pain point for the QGIS project was QGIS 3.x's reliance on the
Qt Webkit library. This library has long been deprecated by the Qt
maintainers, and was finally completely removed in Qt 6.

A direct consequence of this is that functionality which relied on Qt
Webkit has been dropped in QGIS 4.0. This includes:

- The print layout HTML item
- The HTML annotation item

This project will resurrect the print layout HTML item. The underlying
low-level changes will also facilitate a potential replacement for the HTML
annotation item, but this is out-of-scope for the current project.

Note that the functionality required for the QGIS HTML item is also
required for some third-party QGIS plugins, such as the DataPlotly plugin.
These plugins are currently broken on QGIS 4.x as a result.

Please see full details of the proposal at
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/377. Discussion and
comments welcome!

This QEP will be submitted as part of the QGIS.org grant program

Nyall
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