WebKitGTK Working On Accelerated Composited Rendering With DMA-BUF

[phoronix]

Phoronix: WebKitGTK Working On Accelerated Composited Rendering With DMA-BUF

While WebKitGTK already provides accelerated compositing support, there are different code paths depending upon whether Wayland or X11 are used and various other complexities involved as well as differences between using the GTK3 and GTK4 toolkits. WebKitGTK developers have been working to instead shift their multiple different code paths toward one route by way of DMA-BUF...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/WebKitGTK-DMA-BUF-Rendering

[elbar]

In QT land there were problems with apps using old version of WebKit and patching it in distros with app was issue... Therefore using it in langs like C/C++/Python is problematic, but GUI's could also be platform portable(and also compilable, but this is problematic by law)...

[mirmirmir]

There are countless browser based on chromium and Firefox. But we don't have enough browser with WebKit. I mean, it should be better than Firefox considering it's made by apple

[Alexmitter]

I mean, it should be better than Firefox considering it's made by apple

Its probably the worst engine currently available, and far behind Gekko and Blink in speed, compatibility and recourse usage. Its the new Trident.
But the GTK4 port of Web is actually very nice in the 44 release. I consider trying it out for some weeks if the last issues are patched.

[Hibbelharry]

There are countless browser based on chromium and Firefox. But we don't have enough browser with WebKit. I mean, it should be better than Firefox considering it's made by apple

Safari is a pita. You will love Firefox even more once you touched Safari or do web development.

[evasb]

Since 2020 WebKitGTK doesn't accept pasting images or any type of data on Linux, even with a patch that solves it:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218519

Widewine support on Epiphany is not possible because of Google, so no Netflix or many other stream services:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1200

I'm not impressed that WebKit is not that relevant on Linux.

[dragon321]

There are countless browser based on chromium and Firefox. But we don't have enough browser with WebKit. I mean, it should be better than Firefox considering it's made by apple

Days where WebKit was fast engine with good standards supports are past. Apple is no longer interested in open source. In fact I'm surprised that WebKit is still open source and they still contribute to it instead of making new things closed source.

As for the GNOME Web I tried GTK4 build and it was working pretty fine, way better than GTK+3 release. With some improvements it could be usable browser for Linux and probably would help in web development due to shared engine with Safari. Sadly lack of DRM support is going to make it useless for many users.

[Vistaus]

Finally accelerated rendering. QtWebEngine already has it and I'm happily using it in Falkon for a while now, but it's nice to see WebKitGTK following suite.

[Vistaus]

Since 2020 WebKitGTK doesn't accept pasting images or any type of data on Linux, even with a patch that solves it:

I don't have that issue. Maybe it's an issue in GNOME Web, but I don't have it in other WebKitGTK-based apps.

[RahulSundaram]

Days where WebKit was fast engine with good standards supports are past. Apple is no longer interested in open source. In fact I'm surprised that WebKit is still open source and they still contribute to it instead of making new things closed source.

They realistically cannot do that. WebKit was forked from KHTML and is under the LGPL license. Unless you develop something completely new from scratch or keep things clearly independent, you have to make available under the same license anything you link to WebKit because of LGPL conditions. This isn't something they are doing voluntarily.