By Mario Sánchez Prada and Philippe Normand. In the talk we will talk about WebKitGTK+ [1] current status and work done in the last months since last desktop summit. A lot of things have happened in these months, we will summarize the various WebKitGTK+ improvements in rendering (accelerated compositing), accessibility, networking, etc. Also we will cover WebKit2 architecture and initial version of the API, we will detail the roadmap for WebKit2 support for WebKitGTK+. And or course some nice demos :). The talk should be interesting for embedders and those considering integration of the web with the free desktop.

1. WebKitGtk+:
Status and roadmap to WebKit2
Philippe Normand <philn@igalia.com>
Mario Sánchez Prada <mario@igalia.com>

2. What is WebKit?

3. What is WebKitGTK+?

4. Who is using it?

5. Previously on WebKitGTK+...
GObject bindings for the DOM
Support for GTK+ 3.x
Improved HTML5 support
WebSockets
Disk network cache (libsoup)
WebGL support
Full drag­and­drop 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

6. WebKit2: split process model

7. WebKit2: API & Process Boundaries

8. WebKit2: API & Process Boundaries

9. WebKit2: Some details
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 cross­process drawing area (mmaped file)
WebKit2: Current status
Apple and Qt already released WebKit2 browsers
Cross­platform C API exists, internally used
GObject API Work­In­Progress (WebKit2GTK+)
Most challenges of the split process model solved
Tests running, need to deploy more test bots

10. Unstable releases (1.7.x)
More WebKit2GTK+ API written
Drag'n'drop on WebKit2GTK+
WebInspector on WebKit2GTK+
Support for gtk­doc 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...)
Upcoming releases (1.8, 1.10...)
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...)
...

11. Accelerated compositing

12. Fullscreen HTML5 support
(The HTML5 logo is CC Attribution 3.0 Unported, by the W orld W ide W eb Consortium)

13. Accessibility on WebKit2GTK+

14. Accessibility on WebKit2GTK+

15. Accessibility on WebKit2GTK+

16. Wrapping up
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 web­based desktop applications
Comes with a promising future (WebKit2, AC...)
Released regularly (every 6 months)
It's accessible! ;­)
Reporting bugs and Contributing
http://bugs.webkit.org
http://webkitgtk.org
http://webkit.org
Mailing lists:
webkit­gtk@lists.webkit.org
webkit­dev@lists.webkit.org
IRC channels on irc.freenode.net:
#webkitgtk+ and #webkit

17. Q&A
Thanks for attending!
Philippe Normand <philn@igalia.com>
Mario Sánchez Prada <mario@igalia.com>