presented the new stable branch Webkitgtk 2.38.0 , the port of the browser engine webkit for the GTK platform. Webkitgtk allows you to use all the captains of the Gnome-oriented software interface based on Gobject and can be used to integrate web-content processing tools in any applications, from use in specialized HTML/CSS parking, to creating full-functional web browsers. Of the well -known projects using Webkitgtk, you can note the standard gnome browser (Epiphany). Webkitgtk was previously used in the Midori browser, but after the project transition to the hands of Astian Foundation the old version midori on Webkitgtk was abandoned and by creating the creation Browser branches wexond created fundamentally different a product with the same name Midori, but based on the Electron and React.
key changes:
- A new style of designing the control buttons of playing multimedia content is proposed.
- Added API to set CSP (Content-Secury-Policy) for browser additions.
- Provides the possibility of using external inspection systems provided in other browsers (setting is carried out using the environment of the WEBKIT_INSPECTOR_HTTP_SERVER Variable).
- by default, the API MediaSession is included, which allows you to use the MPRIS interface.
- Added Viewer of PDF-Documents based on PDF.JS.
Other improvements:
- Support for self-sufficient Web applications in PWA format (Progressive Web Apps), a D-Bus Provider for such programs was implemented.
- Refactoring has begun to go to GTK 4.
- Added support for the URI scheme “View-Source:”.
- Improved the design of the reader (Reader Mode).
- A point for creating screenshots.
- The option has been added to the settings to disable search recommendations in Web applications.
has been added to the context menu.