is represented Release of a new stable branch WebKitgTK 2.36.0 , browser engine port WebKit for the GTK platform. WebKitgTK allows you to use all the options for WebKit via GNOME-oriented GOBJECT-based software interface and can be used to integrate web content processing to any applications, from use in specialized HTML / CSS parsers, before creating full-featured Web browsers. From well-known projects using WebKitgTK, you can mark the regular browser GNOME (Epiphany). Previously, WebKitgTK was used in the Midori browser, but after the project transitions in the hands of Astian Foundation the old version Midori on WebKitgTK was abandoned and by creating Bowls from browser Wexond Created Fundamentally different product with the same name Midori, but based on the Electron and React platform.
key changes:
- A new realization of funds for people with disabilities, translated from ATK to DBUS interfaces AT-SPI .
- Added support for the requestvideoframecallback.
- Added support Mediaans .
- The Hardware-Acceleration-Policy parameter defining the rules for using hardware acceleration, set to “Always”.
- Added API to process your own URI schemas.
- On the Linux platform, the use of real-time operation is enabled for streams that provide interaction with users (event handlers, scrolling, etc.).
On the basis of WebKitgTK 2.36.0 formed Gnome Web 42 browser issue (Epiphany), in which the following changes are proposed:
- Updated Built-in PDF File Viewer (PDF.JS).
- Added support for the application of the dark theme of decoration.
- Constantly included application of hardware acceleration.
- prepared for the transition to GTK 4.
- The possibility of opening URI through desktop handlers.
- Added support for libportal 0.5 library, which provides simple asynchronously working layers for most “ portals “Flatpak.
- Recycled Search Engine Management Code.