Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from August 18 to August 25.
This week continue improvements in the WebXR front, more layout tests passing, support for CSS's generic font family for math, improvements in the graphics stack, and an Igalia Chat episode!
Cross-Port 🐱
Align the experimental CommandEvent with recent specification changes. This should finalise the implementation ready to enable by default.
The WebXR implementation has gained support to funnel usage permission requests through the public API for immersive sessions. Note that this is a basic implementation, and fine-grained control of requested session capabilities may be added at a later time.
The GTK MiniBrowser has been updated to handle WebKitXRPermissionRequest accordingly.
Implemented rawKeyDown and rawKeyUp in WKTestRunner for WPEWebKit and WebkitGTK, which made more than 300 layout tests pass.
Enable command and commandfor attributes in stable. These are part of the invoker commands API for buttons.
Graphics 🖼️
The CSS font-family: math generic font family is now supported in WebKit. This is part of the CSS Fonts Level 4 specification.
The WebXR implementation has gained to ability to use GBM graphics buffers as fallback, which allows usage with drivers that do not provide the EGL_MESA_image_dma_buf_export extension, yet use GBM for buffer allocation.
The WebXR render loop has been simplified by using a work queue and offloading the session handling to the render thread.
Community & Events 🤝
Early this month, a new episode of Igalia Chat titled "Get Down With the WebKit" was released, where Brian Kardell and Eric Meyer talk with Igalia's Alejandro (Alex) Garcia about the WebKit project and Igalia's WPE port.
That’s all for this week!
