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by api 1352 days ago
I tried some Qt WASM demos here: https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly

Nice idea but the problem is that these literally run as a foreign app in the browser. You can't cut and paste or highlight text. They are not web pages.

There is a niche for this, probably in business and industrial uses or for making legacy apps available over the web, but it's not something I'd consider for a new system that had to in any way be "web-like" or that was primarily used over the web.

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And still no accessibility as far as I can tell. It's kind of amusing and kind of sad that one of the demos on that page is "Pizza Shop", given that there was a recent infamous accessibility lawsuit against Dominos Pizza.
Actually you should be able to cut/paste. Highlighting text also works. https://lpotter.github.io/textedit/textedit.html
Hmmm maybe it has to be enabled programmatically.