Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from September 1 to September 8.
In this week's installment of the periodical, we have better spec compliance of JavaScriptCore's implementation of Temporal, an improvement in how gamepad events are handled, WPE WebKit now implements a helper class which allows test baselines to be aligned with other ports, and finally, an update on recent work on Sysprof.
Cross-Port 🐱
Until now, unrecognized gamepads didn't emit button presses or axis move events if they didn't map to the standard mapping layout according to W3C (https://www.w3.org/TR/gamepad/#remapping). Now we ensure that unrecognized gamepads always map to the standard layout, so events are always emitted if a button is pressed or the axis is moved.
JavaScriptCore 🐟
The built-in JavaScript/ECMAScript engine for WebKit, also known as JSC or SquirrelFish.
In the JavaScriptCore (JSC) implementation of Temporal, the compare() method on Temporal durations was modified to follow the spec, which increases the precision with which comparisons are made. This is another step towards a full spec-compliant implementation of Temporal in JSC.
WPE WebKit 📟
Added a specific implementation for helper class ImageAdapter for WPE. This class allows to load image resources that until now were only shipped in WebKitGTK and other ports. This change has aligned many WPE specific test baselines with the rest of WebKit ports, which were now removed.
Community & Events 🤝
Sysprof has received a variety of new features, improvements, and bugfixes, as part of the integration with Webkit. We continued pushing this front in the past 6 months! A few highlights:
- An important bug with counters was fixed, and further integration was added to WebKit
- It is now possible to hide marks from the waterfall view
- Further work on the remote inspector integration, wkrictl, was done
That’s all for this week!
