You are talking about your docs being a bunch-o-files in a folder on the disc: this is not the same as Qt Assistant in which all the pages are shipped in one Sqlite database.

You can do this using a handler for a custom url scheme handler (e.g. docs://... rather than http://) for a QNetworkAccessManager you attach to your browser component. I expect this is how the qrc:// scheme and Assistant's qthelp:// is done. See http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qq/32/qq32-w...protocols.html for the basic framework. I have done something like this to support an offline tile map cache: it does not take a lot of code. If you are careful to use relative links within your docs it could be browsable from a standard browser directly (useful for docs authoring) or through the embedded WebKit browser (indirectly).

It is, of course, easier just to ship the docs with the product.