Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from March 31 to April 7.
Cross-Port 🐱
Graphics 🖼️
By default we divide layers that need to be painted into 512x512 tiles, and
only paint the tiles that have changed. We record each layer/tile combination
into a SkPicture and replay the painting commands in worker threads, either
on the CPU or the GPU. A change was
landed to improve the algorithm,
by recording the changed area of each layer into a single SkPicture, and for
each tile replay the same picture, but clipped to the tile dimensions and
position.
WPE WebKit 📟
WPE Platform API 🧩
New, modern platform API that supersedes usage of libwpe and WPE backends.
A WPE Platform-based implementation of Media Queries' Interaction Media Features, supporting pointer and hover-related queries, has landed in WPE WebKit.
When using the Wayland backend, this change exposes the current state of pointing devices (mouse and touchscreen), dynamically reacting to changes such as plugging or unplugging. When the new WPEPlatform API is not used, the previous behaviour, defined at build time, is still used.
WPE Android ↗ 🤖
Adaptation of WPE WebKit targeting the Android operating system.
A number of fixes have been merged to fix and improve building WPE WebKit for Android. This is part of an ongoing effort to make it possible to build WPE-Android using upstream WebKit without needing additional patches.
The example MiniBrowser included with WPE-Android has been fixed to handle edge-to-edge layouts on Android 15.
That’s all for this week!
