Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from January 19 to January 26.
The main event this week has been the creation of the branch for the upcoming stable series, accompanied by the first release candidate before 2.52.0. But there's more: the WPE port gains hyphenation support and the ability to notify of graphics buffer changes; both ports get graphics fixes and a couple of new Web features, and WPE-Android also gets a new stable release.
Cross-Port 🐱
Implemented support for the :open
pseudo-class on dialog and details elements. This is currently behind the
OpenPseudoClass feature flag.
Implemented the source property for
ToggleEvent. This can be used to run code dependent on the triggering element
in response to a popover or dialog toggle.
Graphics 🖼️
Fixed the rendering glitches with wheel event asynchronous scrolling, which occurred when the page was scrolled to areas not covered by tiles while the main thread was blocked.
WPE WebKit 📟
Support for
hyphenation
has been added to WPE. This requires
libhyphen and can be disabled at build-time with the USE_LIBHYPHEN=OFF
CMake option.
WPE Platform API 🧩
New, modern platform API that supersedes usage of libwpe and WPE backends.
WPEPlatform gained support to notify
changes in the configuration of graphics buffers allocated to render the
contents of a web view, either by handling the WPEView::buffers-changed
signal or by overriding the WPEViewClass.buffers_changed virtual function.
This feature is mainly useful for platform implementations which may need to
perform additional setup in advance, before updated web view contents are
provided in the buffers configured by WebKit.
Releases 📦️
WPE-Android 0.3.0 has been released, and prebuilt packages are available at the Maven Central repository. The main change in this this version is the update to WPE WebKit 2.50.4, which is the most recent stable release.
A new branch has been created for the upcoming 2.52.x stable release series of the GTK and WPE WebKit ports. The first release candidates from this branch, WebKitGTK 2.51.90 and WPE WebKit 2.51.90 are now available. Testing and issue reports in Bugzilla are welcome to help with stabilization before the first stable release, which is planned for mid-March.
That’s all for this week!
