Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from July 7 to July 14.
This week saw a fix for IPv6 scope-ids in DNS responses, frame pointers re-enabled in JSC developer builds, and a significant improvement to emoji fonts selection.
Cross-Port 🐱
Fixed support for IPv6 scope-ids in DNS responses.
JavaScriptCore 🐟
The built-in JavaScript/ECMAScript engine for WebKit, also known as JSC or SquirrelFish.
Developer builds of JSC now default to having frame pointers, to allow for more useful backtraces.
Graphics 🖼️
Improved the selection of emoji fonts to follow the spec more closely, and ensure the choice is honored while iterating over fallback fonts.
This work has been done in preparation to enable the support for the new font-variant-emoji CSS property down the line.
That’s all for this week!
