Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from July 21 to July 28.
This week the trickle of improvements to the graphics stack continues with more font handling improvements and tuning of damage information; plus the WPEPlatform Wayland backend gets server-side decorations with some compositors.
Cross-Port 🐱
Graphics 🖼️
The font-variant-emoji CSS property is now enabled by default in the GTK and WPE ports.
Font synthesis properties (synthetic bold/italic) are now correctly handled, so that fonts are rendered bold or italic even when the font itself does not provide these variants.
A few minor improvements to the damage propagation feature have landed.
The screen device scaling factor in use is now
shown in the webkit://gpu internal
information page.
WPE WebKit 📟
WPE Platform API 🧩
New, modern platform API that supersedes usage of libwpe and WPE backends.
The Wayland backend included with WPEPlatform has been taught how to request
server-side decorations using the XDG
Decoration protocol.
This means that compositors that support the protocol will provide window
frames and title bars for WPEToplevel instances. While this is a welcome
quality of life improvement in many cases, window decorations will not be shown
on Weston and Mutter (used by GNOME Shell among others), as they do not support
the protocol at the moment.
That’s all for this week!
