The annual WebKitGTK+ hackfest is currently underway in A Coruña, Spain. Going into its fifth year, 2013’s event is the biggest so far, including an unprecedented 30 participants.
The four day event is focusing on everything web in GNOME and GTK+. WebKitGTK+ developer Claudio Saavedra reports that multiple web processes and user interface improvements to the GNOME web browser are both priorities for the hackfest.
You can follow all the action on the @WebKitGTK+ Twitter feed.
The event has been made possible by sponsorship of Igalia and the GNOME Foundation. Other sponsors are helping with travel costs, accommodation, coffee and snacks. Many thanks to Samsung, Adobe, Company100 and Cable Labs.
The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the conclusion of the WebKitGTK+Hackfest. The hackfest was held December 9-12 and was hosted once again at the Igalia offices in A Coruña, Spain. This hackfest has been very successful with more than twenty attendees from Igalia, Collabora, Adobe, Intel, Samsung and Red Hat.
WebKitGTK+ hackfest 2012 picture by Joone Hur
The hackfest was extremely productive, and highlights of the tasks that were worked on there include:
Many improvements in Web, the GNOME web browser: a new incognito mode to minimize the risk of being tracked both on the internet and in your own computer, a slick new UI for the search, revamping the creation of Web applications by selecting better icons and names, adding undo close tabs, preventing empty download-only windows and preliminary work for the integration of the Document Viewer in the browser.
Switching from Pango to Harfbuzz to render complex text.
Porting the WebAudio backend to GStreamer 1.0.
Better DOM bindings.
Many bugs fixed for accelerated compositing with Clutter, both in ELF and GTK+ ports.
Stabilization of the libsoup API.
Improvements in the memory use of the V8 Javascript engine.
2D-canvas accelerated support using Cairo OpenGL.
Better HTML5 media controls.
A new API to retrieve a screenshots from web pages.
Progress in accessibility support.
Documentation.
The GNOME Foundation and community are very grateful to the sponsors of this event:
