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Okay, I did some research on this more recently and it looks like we may be waiting a while longer. I'll go ahead and summarize what I found for the benefit of other non-programmers who are also waiting on the same thing.
Apparently the QtWebKit component is a port of the original WebKit to Qt, and is generally released alongside it but is semi-separate. Right now Qt 4.8 has the QRawFont API that Sigil could use to get font support working, but QtWebKit hasn't put out an update that includes use of the API, so there's nothing for Sigil to use yet.
Right now, it seems as though the QtWebKit team is focusing on QtWebKit2 (not the same thing as QtWebKit 2.0, which is confusing) which is meant to go out with Qt 5.0.
So, apparently the answer to "when can this stuff get integrated into Sigil" is "when Qt 5.0 hits." Of course, exactly how much work moving Sigil to using Qt 5.0 (apparently it's a big leap forward) will be, I don't know, and the answer could very well be "lots."
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