Akademy: Qt 4.5 graphics & web improvements announced
Improvements to the graphics classes and WebKit module for Qt 4.5 has been announced at Akademy. A web view was demonstrated which could display OGG video content with one HTML 5 video tag; the classes use the Phonon multimedia back-end and animations will be possible using CSS. The new graphics canvas classes are up to 40 times faster than in Qt 4.4, featuring a new animations API, effects like blur, bloom, shadow and opacity for items on the GraphicsView, transition animations in user interfaces, and optimisations in painting operations. Qt 4.5 is expected in late 2008 or early 2009.