WebKitGTK+ 2.0.0 Released With Many New Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: WebKitGTK+ 2.0.0 Released With Many New Features

After being in development for the past two years, WebKitGTK+ 2.0.0 has been released and it defaults to their new WebKit2GTK+ API...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTM0OTI

[maksml]

Webkit gtk image scaling

Webkit-gtk even 3 years after STILL has terrible image scaling.
Chrome(ium) always had good image scaling.
Firefox fixed their image scaling a while back. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486918)
Yet webkit gtk has made absolutely no progress on the issue after a whole 3 years (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50703)
At this rate it'll never be fixed and we'll be stuck with terrible image scaling for every webkit-gtk browser.

[Rexilion]

Webkit-gtk even 3 years after STILL has terrible image scaling.
Chrome(ium) always had good image scaling.
Firefox fixed their image scaling a while back. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486918)
Yet webkit gtk has made absolutely no progress on the issue after a whole 3 years (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50703)
At this rate it'll never be fixed and we'll be stuck with terrible image scaling for every webkit-gtk browser.

Never noticed any issue's. Isn't this a little overblown?

[maksml]

Never noticed any issue's. Isn't this a little overblown?

Look at this in a webkit-gtk based browser

https://bug486918.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=428179

[Rexilion]

Look at this in a webkit-gtk based browser
https://bug486918.bugzilla.mozilla.o....cgi?id=428179

I went to check, and added a screenshot to confirm we are talking about the same thing.

gebruiker@Delta:~$ ldd $(which midori) | grep -i webkit
	libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0 (0xb53c2000)

That's 1.



Left is chromium.
Right is midori.

That's 2.

Hmm, I can live with that really. Why all the fuss? I mean, someone could just propose a patch to change the scaling algorithm. Or is that a 'big deal'?

[maksml]

I went to check, and added a screenshot to confirm we are talking about the same thing.

gebruiker@Delta:~$ ldd $(which midori) | grep -i webkit
	libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0 (0xb53c2000)

That's 1.



Left is chromium.
Right is midori.

That's 2.

Hmm, I can live with that really. Why all the fuss? I mean, someone could just propose a patch to change the scaling algorithm. Or is that a 'big deal'?

Why all the fuss? Are you serious?
Go get some glasses and look again.

[smitty3268]

Why all the fuss? Are you serious?
Go get some glasses and look again.

How many sites take huge images and downsample them into tiny images, though? That's just a huge waste of bandwidth.

Obviously improving this would be nice for browsers, but it's hardly the sort of thing an average user is running into all the time.

[curaga]

The average user, who has a less-than-fullHD screen, is running to that daily. Even fullHD screens nowadays, when the cat pictures are 16Mpix.

[Rexilion]

The average user, who has a less-than-fullHD screen, is running to that daily. Even fullHD screens nowadays, when the cat pictures are 16Mpix.

I find that hard to believe, if that statement is not a joke. 16MPix cat pictures are somewhat non-existent. Care to share some of them from your private collection to prove otherwise?

[curaga]

Sorry, the cat pictures of my friend are private. But are you saying you don't see larger-than-fullHD pictures often?