Update on what happened in WebKit in the week from June 9 to June 16.
The major highlight this week is the Web Engines Hackfest! Despite it, there are a variety of updates as well, such as various improvements to input handling in WPE WebKit and WebKitGTK, WPE menu rendering changes, and a plethora of other smaller improvements.
Cross-Port 🐱
Input methods may now know whether a field is intended to be used as search input, in which case the WebKitInputMethodContext:input-purpose property will have the value WEBKIT_INPUT_PURPOSE_SEARCH.
Due to GTK not providing an equivalent value for GtkInputPurpose, the default behaviour is to continue mapping search fields to GTK_INPUT_PURPOSE_FREE_FORM as before; but custom input methods may use the new value to detect search inputs. When using WPEPlatform, the value is mapped to WPE_INPUT_PURPOSE_SEARCH, which has been added as well.
Handle selections as part of moveBefore.
Corrected user activation propagation for close watchers.
Invalidate :lang() and :dir() selectors after moveBefore.
Enable Close Watchers in preview.
WPE WebKit 📟
WPE now renders its own popup menus for elements such as select. It supports all styling options the web provides such as colors and fonts. The internal menu can be overriden with the existing WebView::show-option-menu signal. Cog for example still renders its own (with a recent commit).
Community & Events 🤝
The Web Engines Hackfest started! We had a fantastic first day of talks, and now are heading to breakout sessions. Make sure to check the schedule for sessions that may interest you!
That’s all for this week!
