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Just like promised the last week I spend some time coding a webbrowser for Sailfish which supports landscape and supports tabbing.
I based my work on the tinywebbrowser project by Mike7b4. So thanks for the initial code and inspiration.

The current features of the browser so far:
  • Landscape support
  • Tabbing support (real without reloading of tabs)
  • Bookmark support
  • Setting browser user agent
  • Setting default font sizes
  • Opening up links in new tab (by long press and hold on link)
  • Copy links (by long press and hold on link)
  • Open rtsp, rtmp and mms links with external viewer (e.g. LLs VideoPlayer)
  • Setting DNS Prefetch
  • Setting Offline WebApplication Cache
  • Manually add bookmark with specific user agent
  • Fast scroll to top or bottom of page
  • Watch Youtube with internal or external player (e.g. LLs VideoPlayer) with direct link
  • Download Youtube videos
  • Private Browsing
  • Clear Cache, Cookies, History
  • ReaderMode (with NightMode)
  • Copy text from website
  • Search text in website
  • Keyboard hotkeys
  • Session support
  • HTML5 Video Tag detection
  • Embeded Youtube detection
  • Integrated file manager
  • Integrated Download Manager
  • Keyboard Hotkeys (for TOHKBD or bluetooth keyboards)
  • Set as default browser
  • Backup Manager (Import/Export Bookmarks,Cookies,History,Settings)
  • Proxy Support
  • Fast Tab Switching
  • Create Website Launchers
  • Cookie Manager

You can find the code here: https://github.com/llelectronics/webcat
RPM here: https://openrepos.net/sites/default/...-1.armv7hl.rpm
Tablet (i486) RPM: https://openrepos.net/sites/default/...0.8-1.i486.rpm

It is recommend to use QtWebkit 5.212 from Version 2.9.7 onwards.
You can currently find RPMs here: https://openrepos.net/content/llelec...ebkit-5212-dev

Update:
Version 3.0.8
  • Fix webTitle visible after loading and urlText in focus
  • Ytdl: Fix for multiple tabs trying to get youtube stream urls
  • Fix youtube stream acquiring
  • Multiple presses on the ffwd and rew button in Videoplayer triggers further jump in the video (if done in 1.5 second interval) and shows *
    indicators


Version 3.0.7
  • Switch Youtube getting streams to using https (Fixes Youtube video playback)
  • Fixed ytQualityChooser not appearing
  • Add ytdl support (Download or copy from LLs video player)
  • YTDL Support: 360p videos are loaded by default (if a Video is not playing back try the 360p option by long pressing the play button in mediabar)
  • YTDL Support: Update ytdl if binary older than 10 days automatically
  • Adjust video player component size for new yt mobile site
  • Fixed race condition in suggestionView hide on Enter key press

Version 3.0.6
  • Fix OpenDialog: Wrong path when switching between folders + hidden files show states
  • Redirect urls that start with / to file://
  • Fix https entry redirect to http:// error on some longer urls (Closes: #74)
  • Hide error popup on LoadStart (Fixes: #75)
  • Update User Agent String for youtube to load correct site
  • Enable Desktop Scaling as temporary workaround for websites who do not work properly without dpr=1.0 (Press and hold reader mode for 3 seconds)
  • Add working internal FM only image viewer based upon the Silica ImageViewer from Gallery
  • Add greek translation + update translations


Version 3.0.5
  • Fixed url entry + allow entering IP:PORT again
  • Fixed about:file not being able to load images in browser
  • Fixed fixUrl function to really perform check for file:// and about:
  • Made landscape downloadmanager list a bit smaller
  • Downloadmanager: Show active running download in docked panel that autohides if no download active
  • Downloadmanager: Allow all orientations for status and error Page
  • Fixed valid urls without :// in front
  • Fixed resolution independent error box
  • Downloadmanager: Align current download label horizontal all the time and elide correctly
  • OpenDialog/Filemanager: Allow showing hidden files and folders by pressing on the title of the current folder
  • Fixed BackupManager not showing progress on restore
  • OpenDialog/Filemanager: Fixed remove function for multiple files and folders (Potential high risk of loosing data when trying to remove
    multiple folders in earlier versions)

Version 3.0.4
  • Add support for light theme
  • Make background white for video player when isLightTheme
  • Add rew and ffwd buttons to video player

Version 3.0.3
  • searchText: Hide on Esc; Focus Webview on hide and search
  • urlText: support modifier .com/.net/.org shortcuts; merge code duplication
  • added*hw keyboard switch setting + overview page (switch between BB10 like shortcuts or desktop browser shortcuts) [Thanks to jgibbon for this awesome work]
  • urlText: focus webview on escape
  • bookmarks: hide on escape
  • Renamed open-url-webcat to harbour-webcat-open-url + set icon theme and add german translation + use x-scheme-handler for *
    mimetypes (allows setting webcat as default browser in mimer again)
  • Workaround to allow registering harbour-webcat-open-url as http/https handler in the mime database
  • Only copy over dbus service file if necessary
  • Updated translations (Polish, Swedish, French, Spanish)

Version 3.0.2
  • Make quickscroll area smaller, appear after bigger threshold, and don't react on pressed
  • fine tune extraThreshold for landscape quickscroll
  • Disable some debug output
  • Fixed moving of files (causing loss of data) in filemanager
  • Fixed filepicker not able to select files
  • Faster tab switching
  • Don't loose keyboard shortcuts on tab switch / creating new Tab
  • Add function to get nextTab and prevTab
  • Added shortcut for quick tab switching ctrl+tab & ctrl+shift+tab
  • hide tabBar and bookmarkList before switching tab
  • Open Filemanager immediate and don't perform animation when entering about:file
  • Add more keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+W - Close, Ctrl+T - New Tab, Ctrl+N - New Window, Escape - Stop)
  • Allow swiping on urlTitle (only visible after website loaded completely) to switch tabs
  • Use threshold value resolution dependent for back/forward swipes on minimized toolbar
  • Fix highlighted tab not filling whole width with highlight

Version 3.0.1
  • Fixed mimetype set as default browser
  • Fixed keyboard shortcut for showing bookmarks not working
  • Q should open up bookmarks/tab view aswell [like on BB10]
  • Press A on keyboard to add current page to bookmarks
  • Fixed editing of bookmarks / manually adding bookmarks
  • Fixed wrong aligned ulrtext when pressing U shortcut on keyboard
  • Made fancyscroller width a little bit shorter
  • Fixed create folder in home + showing error message when folder cannot be created
  • Don't show Add to places for home dir

Version 3.0.0
  • Only add default bookmarks once on first start (not if bookmarks are empty)
  • Cleanup (Make TabBar otherComponent)
  • Added nightMode Button (replaced newWindow button) [Thx to Dharmendra63]
  • Updated urls for default bookmarks
  • Port away from SelectUrl page and use TabBar and BookmarkList components (faster navigation less clutter)*
  • Added workaround for rendering cut when window in background
  • Doubleclick on Goto Button switches to previous Tab
  • Distinguish single and doubleClick on gotoButton more and don't fire singleClick event when doubleClicking (200msec delay timer checks for single and double click)
  • Hide webview when bookmarkList is visible (more performance on some devices)
  • Added File Properties Page for FM
  • Open internal video player for audio files aswell
  • Allow opening files with a click on file icon in properties
  • Added RenameDialog + show full size of directories
  • Added CreateDirDialog + fixed removing of folders
  • Added permissionDialog
  • Adapt to new SailfishOS Gallery video player defaults (Close button top right, Fullscreen button bottom right)
  • Fixed margin bottom of fullscreenbutton + margin right for when maxTime is not visible
  • Proper fix for video player component size and anchors after exiting fullscreen or changing orientation
  • Added placesPage for FileManager
  • Removed Pulleymenuitems available in placesPage and add properties to pulleymenu in filemanager
  • Calculate dirSize in background so it does not freeze FileManager UI
  • Added option to add custom bookmarks to placesPage
  • Allow renaming of custom places items
  • Allow setting desktop link to Webcat Fileman
  • Double click on video player component switches to or from fullscreen
  • Disable Split WebView as not working anymore
  • Fixed Video Player Component wrongly anchored on close
  • VideoPlayer Component takes now 1/3 of the the screensize in portrait mode and allows you to browse the web while watching a video
  • Allow swiping video player component up and down to reposition when not in fullscreen or landscape
  • Make sure webview gets visible when exiting fullscreen in portrait mode*
  • Make sure to hide webview on fullscreen all the time
  • Removed pressandhold on gotoButton and quick extraToolbar navigation
  • Cleaned up extraToolbar. Removed newTab + closeTab.
  • Visually redesigned MenuPopup to match rest of Webcat
  • Always show 7 items in extra toolbar and align them to screen size
  • Removed menuPopup from Tabbar (is available now in extraToolbar)
  • Make extraToolbar bigger
  • Use solid highlight color dimmed down as tabbar highlight (show active tab)
  • Removed Jolla Tides default bookmark (website not active anymore)
  • Added tor icon in tab/gotoButton if tor is enabled
  • Fixed infoBanner for proxyPage and tor disabling
  • Fixed urltext anchoring and switch to webtitle + weburl when title of webpage is available
  • Fixed mediaDownloadRec overlaying menuPopup
  • Fixed webview height/width by anchoring it to page and hide toolbars (except minimized main toolbar) at page end
  • Simulate quickScroll UI in FancyScroller when in landscape mode
  • Don't minimize toolbar when loading initial default about: urls
  • Fixed mediadetect running on touchend conflicts with previously detected media (disabled touchend)
  • Only check youtube url and add url to history if not about: url
  • Don't hide mediaDownloadRec if atYBeginning and atYEnd
  • Better workaroundRefresh method
  • Set pixelAligned to true (slightly smoother website scrolling)

You can get the app in the warehouse and jolla store aswell and rate it there

Videodemonstration: http://youtu.be/1uVjaETqmMA
0.9-1 Videodemo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNYjdr5tCSs
0.9.6 Videodemo: http://youtu.be/vttkJgKOK48
1.9.9 Videodemo: http://youtu.be/WZXlqOrLKK8
2.0.9 Videodemo: https://youtu.be/Ck2TND0-PwE
2.1.0 Videodemo Backupmanager: https://youtu.be/sBge7JAlXro
2.2.0 Videodemo Fast Tab Switching: https://youtu.be/iaeMNppgOSQ
2.3 Videodemo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeffwP7SXkY
3.0 New Features:https://youtu.be/Tm4uT1YZdfQ
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nothing can see after install when I start it
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Thanks for your work. But I have two problems:
1)doesn't work installed by Warehouse(i have installed manually) 2) When you launch the application there is a blank page
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Hmm... need to debug it. Just a sec.
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I have also experienced these two errors (not being able to install through Warehouse and the blank screen).

The error code of the former is:
Code:
[W] unknown:11 - file:///usr/share/harbour-webcat/qml/pages/helper/db.js:11: Error: no such column: agent Unable to execute statement
[W] unknown:107 - file:///usr/share/harbour-webcat/qml/pages/helper/db.js:107: Error: no such table: settings Unable to execute statement
I know it's hard to debug such things when databases persist in the SDK

EDIT: Nevermind, that was not the right advice. But the error lies there.

Last edited by nodevel; 2014-01-11 at 15:45.
 
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For the white screen please make sure to have qt5-qtgraphicaleffects installed.
I will upload a new package with this as dependency when I figured out the db.js problem.
Thx for your help and patience.
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Update: I think I fixed it: https://openrepos.net/sites/default/...-2.armv7hl.rpm
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Really ? Hmm... then I need to think about something else to make it to harbour.
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Thanks! Looks great!

Just few issues I noticed:
  • The URL bar covers a small part of the page - on one website I visit, there a link to switch to mobile version, which is currently hidden behind the bar (I just noticed that the bar becomes thinner after scrolling, but only on longer pages).
  • The tab bar is visually bit confusing - not really sure what is current tab... You could remove the 'New tab' and 'Close' buttons as they're accessible through the pulley menu
  • Would you consider adding bookmark editing function? It is quite easy to edit bookmarks in the default browser (through a config file), but since here it's in a database... It is difficult to make a bookmark pointing to http://talk.maemo.org/search.php?do=getnew
  • Switching to landcape and then back to portrait zooms the page in
  • Rotation animation is not very smooth

These are just minor issues - I am very impressed by your work. I wouldn't have imagined something would replace the default browser in its initial version. Simply amazing.
 
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