Description
A-Browser Qt (test)
This is a tryout to evaluate if an alternate browser for WebOS is feasible and of interest.
The app is a Qt 4.8 using webkit (QWebView) for rendering.
It's about 2x faster on the sunspider JavaScript benchmark as the stock browser, which is pretty sweet.
It isn't very touch friendly as it is basically a desktop app.
The app is an almost straight port of the Qt "fancybrowser" demo.
The WebOS extension for Qt to work on WebOS are derived from https://gitorious.org/~darronb.
Developing a full-fledged browser is a hard task. I do not plan to develop this much further but would be happy to help if somebody is interested.
NOTES:
- !No virtual keyboard on Touchpad!
- No flash or H.264
DEVICES:
- Pre x.
- Touchpad: not tested - may work, or not.
- No armv5 (pixi, ...)
HISTORY
18.02.2012 v 0.4.0
- Fixed kinetic scrolling
- Enable/disable javascript
14.02.2012 v 0.3.0
- Tabbed browsing
- Touch&Kinetic scrolling (beta)
- (Very) primitive zoom support
- Bookmarking foundations (not yet persistent)
27.01.2012 v 0.1.0
- First release
NOTES
- The WebOS extension for Qt to work on WebOs is by Darron Black: https://gitorious.org/~darronb
- Qt version 4.8
- Instructions to cross-compile Qt are available at: http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/HowtoQt
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Seller: droggen
Homepage: http://www.webosnation.com/a-browser-qt-test
Category: News And Internet
Updated: February 18, 2012
Version: 0.4.0
Size: 15M
License: BSD License Open Source
Type: Application
Feed: PreCentral