Today I got all end-to-end tests for the qtwebengine branch (still with the QtWebKit backend!) to work:

671 passed, 9 skipped, 8 xfailed

This means almost all qutebrowser code is now refactored to use a well-defined API over QtWebKit!

There are still some places (hints/downloads/editor) where I'm cheating and still accessing the underlying QWebView object directly. I plan to look at those once I have some more experience with QtWebEngine, as I currently don't know how the API for those should look like.

Probably the most difficult thing today was rewriting userscript code to work with the new way how dumping a page's content will work with QtWebEngine (async, by calling a callback when the data is ready instead of returning it).

There's still some work to do, but we're getting closer to me working in the master branch again and having finished the first big refactoring phase.

The changes in the qtwebengine branch are quite big already:

35 files changed, 2085 insertions(+), 867 deletions(-)

The plan for the rest of the week looks like this:

• Clean up linter warnings
• Get the unit tests for session saving/loading to work again as they're still broken thanks to some heavy mocking
• Add stub implementations for still missing QtWebEngine features so they log a warning and do nothing instead of crash.
• Implement the most needed features (like scrolling)
• Merge qtwebengine into master

At that point, people using the git version will be able to use --backend webengine to play around with QtWebEngine support which will then gradually get better and better.