Btw., along the lines, I just figured out that via Qt Platform Abstraction (former Qt Lighthouse project) (since Qt 4.8), you can have a real headless Qt WebKit

Btw., along the lines, I just figured out that via Qt Platform Abstraction (former Qt Lighthouse project) (since Qt 4.8), you can have a real headless Qt WebKit now. (Earlier, it always was some headless X-server in between - much heavier.) Some links: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9213215/how-to-use-qwebpage-in-a-non-gui-application/15471433#15471433 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9213215/how-to-use-qwebpa... Esp. this PhantomJS commit is interesting: https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/commit/c78ae190a9 https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/commit/c78ae190a9