Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from March 2 to March 9.
As part of this week's handful of news, WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit now have support for Gamepad's "VibationActuator" property, the video decoding limit is now configurable at runtime in addition to build time, and an interesting fix that makes WebKit render fonts like other browsers by making it blend text incorrectly (!).
Cross-Port 🐱
Using libmanette's rumble support, enabled Gamepad VibrationActuator for WebKitGTK and WPE WebKit.
With these changes, playEffect() can be used to play dual-rumble vibration effects.
Multimedia 🎥
GStreamer-based multimedia support for WebKit, including (but not limited to) playback, capture, WebAudio, WebCodecs, and WebRTC.
VIDEO_DECODING_LIMIT is now configurable at runtime, in addition to build time. That will allow vendors that share a single binary build on different platforms to fine-tune their needs without a rebuild.
Graphics 🖼️
Landed a change that tweaks the text rendering done with Skia. With this change, the text looks more natural now - just like in other browsers. However, this is done by blending text incorrectly as a compromise.
Releases 📦️
One more set of release candidates for the upcoming stable branch, WebKitGTK 2.51.93 and WPE WebKit 2.51.93, have been published. For those interested in previewing the upcoming 2.52.x series this release is expected to be quite stable. Reporting issues in Bugzilla are, as usual, more than welcome.
That’s all for this week!
