Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from January 27 to February 3.
Cross-Port 🐱
The documentation now has a section on how to use the Web Inspector remotely. This makes information on this topic easier to find, as it was previously scattered around a few different locations.
Jamie continues her Coding Experience work around bringing WebExtensions to the WebKitGTK port. A good part of this involves porting functionality from Objective-C, which only the Apple WebKit ports would use, into C++ code that all ports may use. The latest in this saga was WebExtensionStorageSQLiteStore.
Web Platform 🌐
The experimental support for Invoker Commands has been updated to match latest spec changes.
WPE and WebKitGTK now have support for the Cookie Store API.
Implemented experimental support for the CloseWatcher API.
Multimedia 🎥
GStreamer-based multimedia support for WebKit, including (but not limited to) playback, capture, WebAudio, WebCodecs, and WebRTC.
The GStreamer WebRTC backend can now recycle inactive senders and support for inactive receivers was also improved. With these changes, support for screen sharing over WebRTC is now more reliable.
On the playback front, a bug on the silent video automatic pause optimization was fixed, the root case for certain VP9 videos appearing as empty sometimes was found out to be in GStreamer, and there is effort ongoing to solve racy crashes when flushing MSE streams.
WebKitGTK 🖥️
Support for WebDriver BiDi has been enabled in WebKitGTK as an experimental feature.
That’s all for this week!
