We live in an age of web-connected devices, and the marketing department wants to be able to say that BigProject can be accessed from the web:
- Req 24: The system shall be accessible through a web client.
One of the more interesting features to emerge from Qt in 5.12 is support for remote GUIs using WebGL. Using this, the GUI for an application is accessed through a WebGL-compatible web browser (in other words, Chrome, Edge, or Safari).
QML-based applications can be run through WebGL by simply instructing them to run against the WebGL display platform:
[On Target]$ your-qt-application -platform webgl:port=port#