Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from May 19 to May 26.
This week saw updates on the Android version of WPE, the introduction of a new mechanism to support memory-mappable buffers which can lead to better performance, a new gamepad API to WPE, and other improvements.
Cross-Port 🐱
Implemented support for the new 'request-close' command for dialog elements.
JavaScriptCore 🐟
The built-in JavaScript/ECMAScript engine for WebKit, also known as JSC or SquirrelFish.
Added support for using the GDB JIT API when dynamically generating code in JSC.
Graphics 🖼️
Added support for memory-mappable GPU buffers. This mechanism allows to allocate linear textures that can be used from OpenGL, and memory-mapped into CPU-accessible memory. This allows to update the pixel data directly, bypassing the usual glCopyTexSubImage2D logic that may introduce implicit synchronization / perform staging copies / etc. (driver-dependant).
WPE WebKit 📟
WPE Platform API 🧩
New, modern platform API that supersedes usage of libwpe and WPE backends.
Landed a patch to add a gamepads API to WPE Platform with an optional default implementation using libmanette.
WPE Android ↗ 🤖
Adaptation of WPE WebKit targeting the Android operating system.
WPE-Android has been updated to use WebKit 2.48.2. Updated packages will be available in the Central repository in the coming days.
The WPE-Android MiniBrowser no longer crashes when opening the “Settings” activity when the system-wide dark user interface mode is enabled.
That’s all for this week!
