WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance

[phoronix]

Phoronix: WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance

WebKitGTK as the port of the WebKit rendering engine used by GNOME Web (Epipahny) and other software for displaying web content is transitioning to using Skia for its 2D rendering...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/WebKitGTK-To-Use-Skia-2D

[s_j_newbury]

Well of course it's faster since Cairo lost it's accelerated backends!

[andre30correia]

anyone uses gnome web?

[V1tol]

That are good news for apps on Linux using system WebView for UIs instead of bloated Electron.

[You-]

Well of course it's faster since Cairo lost it's accelerated backends!

AFAIK they mostly didnt work.

[Linuxhippy]

Well of course it's faster since Cairo lost it's accelerated backends!

AFAIK they mostly didnt work.

Exactly, Cairo`s accelerated backends never worked really well - for many workloads they were actually slower than software-rendering, not to mention correctness bugs.
It seems everybody who can is running (or ran long ago) away from Cairo - for good reasons.

[StarterX4]

anyone uses gnome web?

Even GNOME has it's own Internet Explorer

[StarterX4]

I don't get it why GNOME keeps pushing it's users just towards WebKit. It sucks in 2024. Why not use Blink (or even Gecko) instead (or simultaneously)?
I understand the ambition behind their browser... but not with that obsolete and slow engine.

[pbryan]

I don't get it why GNOME keeps pushing it's users just towards WebKit. It sucks in 2024. Why not use Blink (or even Gecko) instead (or simultaneously)?
I understand the ambition behind their browser... but not with that obsolete and slow engine.

This "obsolete" engine, as you put it, powers the browser with the second-highest market share worldwide.

[aviallon]

This "obsolete" engine, as you put it, powers the browser with the second-highest market share worldwide.

Because of anti-competitive practices.