Mario Sánchez Prada <mario@igalia.com>

• WebKit2 announced back in April 2010
• Apple and Qt already released WK2 browsers
• Epiphany with WK2 support in GNOME 3.6
• WebKit2GTK+ stable API to be released soon
• Cross-platform C API exists, internally used
• Most challenges of multi process model solved
• Tests running, need to deploy more test bots

Previously in WebKitGTK+...

• Migrated to GTK+ 3.x. Kept GTK 2.x support.
• Independent JavaScriptCore library
• Improved HTML5 support
• WebGL support (not enabled by default)
• GObject bindings for the DOM
• On-disk network cache
• Spell checking APIs
• Improvements in accessibility support
• Basic support for WebKit2 (WebKit2GTK+)

Stable release (1.8)

• Improvements in performance (backing store)
• DFG JIT compiler enabled in JavaScriptCore
• HTML5 history APIs
• WebGL support built by default
• Initial support for Accelerated Compositing
• Experimental support for WebAudio
• Geolocation API built by default
• Preliminary version of WebKit2GTK+ API
• Enabled accessibility support in WebKit2GTK+

WebKitGTK+ Roadmap

WebKit1

• In maintenance mode from GNOME 3.6 on
• Epiphany no longer using WK1 after 3.8
• Other apps could start migrating as well

WebKit2

• Beta version of WebKit2GTK+ API for GNOME 3.6
• New development will happen in WebKit2GTK+
• Parallel installable with WebKit1

• Support for Accelerated Compositing
• WebGL enabled by default
• Support for HTML5 Fullscreen and WebAudio
• Multimedia layer ported to GStreamer 0.11
• Support for the Low-Level Interpreter in JSC
• Beta version of the WebKit2GTK+ API:
• Context menus, Web Inspector, on-disk cache
• HTML5 fullscreen, cookies, geolocation
• Favicons, spell-checking, print support
• Documentation, GI annotations
• More tests running and passing (also for WK2)

• First stable API of WebKit2GTK+ for 2.0
• Stabilization of the WebKit2GTK+ API
• Add more API to WebKit2GTK+ as required
• HW accelerated Video Rendering
• Integration of the cairo-gl backend
• Port more apps to WebKit2GTK+ (yelp, ephy...)

• Mature port of WebKit, used everywhere
• Released regularly (every 6 months)
• Suitable for writing modern browsers
• Great option for embedders
• Lots of improvements during the previous months
• WebKit1 in maintenance mode since GNOME 3.6
• WebKit2GTK+ beta API since GNOME 3.6
• Stable WebKit2GTK+ API expected for 3.8
• Epiphany with WK2 by default expected for 3.8

• www.webkit.org
• bugs.webkit.org
• www.webkitgtk.org
• trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/WebKit2Roadmap
• Mailing lists:
  • webkit-gtk@lists.webkit.org
  • webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org
• IRC channels on irc.freenode.net:
  • #webkitgtk+ and #webkit