Bug 29461 – [Qt] QWebView->setHtml doesn't speak XHTML

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: WONTFIX
• Component: WebKit Qt

[Tor Arne Vestbø]

This bug report originated from issue QTBUG-2787
<http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-2787>

--- Description ---

If one does:

    QString html="XHTML content";
    QWebView->setHtml( html );

it is parsed with WebKit's HTML parser as opposed to its XHTML parser (causing some oddities in the DOM tree because e.g. for HTML, <a id="something" /> is just an opened tag, while for XHTML it's opening and closing a tag).

QWebView->setContent( html.toLocal8Bit(), "application/xhtml+xml" ) does the correct thing, but is slower (and possibly less accurate), because of the charset conversions.

setHtml() should probably set the MIME type to application/xhtml+xml instead of text/html if it detects a proper XHTML header ("<?xml" and the doctype are good hints).

[Jędrzej Nowacki]

*** Bug 29457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Jocelyn Turcotte]

Lowering to minor since workarounds are available.

[Alexis Menard (darktears)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 31115 ***

[Alexis Menard (darktears)]

The documentation says better what to use now.