news 28 Posted October 27, 2011 A new WebKitGTK+ unstable release is available. The 1.7 unstable series of WebKitGTK+ starts with this 1.7.1 release. http://webkitgtk.org/webkit-1.7.1.tar.gz sha256sum: d928be29ec403cdaa4ef77766d0b08990b477f97b9cc3d008d347d3040493ed9 md5sum: cbf70a30dbf46997ac70ab0f548f198d You may also access the unstable branch directly from the SVN repository: http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk What's new in the WebKitGTK+ 1.7.1 release ========================================== - Fix a problem with scroll adjustments tha made scrollbars become out of sync with the page contents. - Show title of option control items in a tooltip. - Improve scrolling performance for pages containing windowed plugins. - Use GtkGrid instead of GtkTable in authentication dialogs. - Fix compatibility issues with DOM bindings. - Fix video pause/play in fullscreen. - Add support for pseudo-italics on freetype fonts when italic font is requested but Fontconfig gives one that is neither oblique nor italic. - Fix text rendering issues due to custom fonts which use synthetic oblique rendering. - Support for client-based geolocation. - Add support for sending encoded blob data during network requests. - Use SOCK_SEQPACKET when available for sockets used to communicate processes in WebKit2. - Add gtk-doc support to generate WebKit2 GTK+ API documentation. - Implement default error pages in WebKit2. - Initial implementation of WebInspector for WebKit2. - Implement drag and drop support in WebKit2. - TextChecker implementation for WebKit2. - Initial implementation of back forward list for WebKit2 GTK+ API. - Initial implementation of view settings for WebKit2 GTK+ API. - Initial implementation of loader client for WebKit2 GTK+ API. - Implement cache model for WebKit2 - Initial implementation of web context for WebKit2 GTK+ API. - Add methods to get/set a custom text enconding to WebKit2 GTK+ API. - Add WebKitError to WebKit2 GTK+ API. This is the first release providing a minimal working WebKit2 GTK+ API. This API is still under design and development, so use it carefully and take into account that it will change. What is WebKitGTK+? ================= WebKitGTK+ is the GNOME platform port of the WebKit rendering engine. Offering WebKit's full functionality through a set of GObject-based APIs, it is suitable for projects requiring any kind of web integration, from hybrid HTML/CSS applications to full-fledged web browsers. Requirements: =========== libsoup >= 2.33.6 cairo >= 1.10 fontconfig >= 2.4 FreeType2 >= 9.0 libxml >= 2.6 Depending on your configuration options WebKitGTK+ may also depend on: libxslt >=1.1.7 sqlite >= 3.0 gstreamer >= 0.10 gstreamer-plugin-base >= 0.10.30 enchant >= 0.22 More information ================ If you want to know more about the project or get in touch with us you may: - Visit our website at http://www.webkitgtk.org, or the upstream site at http://www.webkit.org. People interested in contributing should read: http://www.webkit.org/coding/contributing.html. - Browse the bug list at http://bugs.webkit.org, WebKitGTK+ bugs are typically prefixed by "[GTK]." A bug report with a minimal, reproducible test case is often just as valuable as a patch. - Join the #webkit and #webkit-gtk IRC channels at irc.freenode.net. Share this post Link to post
