WebKit Igalia Periodical #26

A new WebKitWebView::theme-color property has been added to the public API, along with a corresponding webkit_web_view_get_theme_color() getter. Its value follows that of the theme-color metadata attribute declared by pages loaded in the web view. Although applications may use the theme color in any way they see fit, the expectation is that it will be used to adapt their user interface (as in this example) to complement the Web content being displayed.

The video capture pipeline has gained the ability to optionally rotate the input before encoding.

Damage propagation has been toggled for the GTK port: for now only a single rectangle is passed to the UI process, which then is used to let GTK know which part of a WebKitWebView has received changes since the last repaint. This is a first step to get damage tracking code widely tested, with further improvements to be enabled later when considered appropriate.

WPE-Android 0.2.0 has been released. The main change in this version is the update to WPE WebKit 2.48.3, which is the first that can be built for Android out of the box, without needing any additional patching. Thanks to this, we expect that the WPE WebKit version used will receive more frequent updates going forward. The prebuilt packages available at the Maven Central repository have been updated accordingly.

WebKitGTK 2.49.2 and WPE WebKit 2.49.2 have been released. These are development snapshots and are intended to let those interested test out upcoming features and improvements, and as usual issue reports are welcome in Bugzilla.

This year's Web Engines Hackfest had two WebKit-related sessions, and the slides are available already for the WPE-Android talk and the Multimedia in WebKit session. Video recordings will be available later on.