Philippe Normand <philn@igalia.com>

Mario Sánchez Prada <mario@igalia.com>

Previously on WebKitGTK+...

• GObject bindings for the DOM
• Support for GTK+ 3.x
• Improved HTML5 support
• WebSockets
• Disk network cache (libsoup)
• WebGL support
• Full drag-and-drop support
• More accessible
• Increased test coverage (up to 26000 tests)

Stable release (1.6)

• GTK+ 3.x is default. Kept GTK+ 2.x support
• More GObject bindings for the DOM
• Independant JavaScriptCore library
• Basic support for WebKit2 (WebKit2GTK+)
• Spell checking APIs
• Lots of bugfixes

• Three different processes:
  • UI Process
  • Web Process
  • Plugin Process


• IPC Mechanisms:
  • CoreIPC - an abstraction for general message passing, including event handling (sockets)
  • DrawingArea - an abstraction for a cross-process drawing area (mmaped file)

• Apple and Qt already released WebKit2 browsers
• Cross-platform C API exists, internally used
• GObject API Work-In-Progress (WebKit2GTK+)
• Most challenges of the split process model solved
• Tests running, need to deploy more test bots

• More WebKit2GTK+ API written
• Drag'n'drop on WebKit2GTK+
• WebInspector on WebKit2GTK+
• Support for gtk-doc on WebKit2GTK+
• MiniBrowser ported to WebKit2GTK+ API
• Initial implementation of WebAudio
• WebGL enabled by default
• Initial support for accelerated compositing
• Performance boost (e.g. JavaScript, rendering...)

• Keep working on the WebKit2GTK+ API
• Accelerated compositing (OpenGL)
• Implement fullscreen HTML5 support (Video)
• Finish WebAudio implementation
• Port multimedia to GStreamer 0.11
• HW accelerated Video rendering
• Accessibility enabled on WebKit2GTK+
• Port more apps to WebKit2GTK+ (yelp, ephy...)
• ...

• Mature port of WebKit, used everywhere
• Very active (and open!) development process
• Perfectly suitable for writing modern browsers
• Great option for embedded systems
• Also great for web-based desktop applications
• Comes with a promising future (WebKit2, AC...)
• Released regularly (every 6 months)
• It's accessible! ;-)

• http://bugs.webkit.org
• http://webkitgtk.org
• http://webkit.org
• Mailing lists:
  • webkit-gtk@lists.webkit.org
  • webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org
• IRC channels on irc.freenode.net:
  • #webkitgtk+ and #webkit