Developing hybrid Web GTK+ applications
I’ve put up the slides from my FOSDEM ’08 talk on developing Web/GTK+ rich internet applications with WebKit and deploying them on the desktop and on mobile devices. If you were simply too hung over from the night before to…
GTK+ WebKit session at FOSDEM 2008
If you’re attending FOSDEM (Brussels) next weekend, come along to my GNOME devroom talk on Web integration: “WebKit/GTK+ is a brand new port of the WebKit content engine providing standards compliance, high performance and seamless integration with the GTK+ stack….
WebKit for Windows gets Cairo support
Brent Fulgham, whose work I’ve already mentioned now has the WebKit/Cairo Windows port up and running. This is the “native Windows port” a lot of people have been waiting for (though it’s technically no more or less native than Safari’s…
Accelerating WebKit with OpenVG
After a weekend hack session with Øyvind Kolås, I got WebKit/GTK+‘s Cairo backend rendering straight to OpenGL with Cairo’s new OpenVG backend and ShivaVG: At first the colours were a bit off and performance was nothing to write home about….
Advances in Web typography
If you’re running a WebKit nightly, your browser supports two new ways of specifying custom fonts. CSS2 ‘WebFonts’ With WebFonts you can define custom font faces by passing a URL to the font file: @font-face { font-family: ‘Bitstream Vera Sans’;…
Putting the Web in GTK+
The word is out. I’ll be coordinating with Epiphany developer Christian Persch to see how the GTK+ team can put Web functionality in or alongside the UI toolkit in the weeks leading up to the GTK+ Berlin hackfest 2008. We’ll…
WebKit HTML5 canvas enhancements, Acid2 support and more
Improved WebKit HTML5 canvas support Brent Fulgham has been merging Cairo graphics backend features from the Adobe Apollo/AIR branch of WebKit (#16558, #16577, #15382). The Adobe developers have been cooperative and their code is well-written — hopefully they’ll start merging…
WebKit HTML5 video support with GStreamer
What do you get when you take WebKit/GTK+, add GStreamer and finish off with a sprinkling of code from Clutter? I’ve been working together with Pierre-Luc Beaudoin on a GStreamer-based media backend for WebKit. Last week, we landed this work…
WebKit/GTK+ API design
In the last month, we’ve started to look more seriously at the WebKit public API and how it fits with GLib/GTK+ principles. Some of the fixes have been obvious: #16174: Use “URI” not “URL” in public API #15691: The main…
Welcoming Google to the WebKit project
In my talk at LCE 2007, I touched on the issue of proprietary branches and their effect on developer morale. On the WebKit/GTK+ team, we’ve had to deal with this issue a few times. A year ago, Adobe promised great…
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