Notices by WebKitGTK (webkitgtk@floss.social)

WebKitGTK 2.38.5 stable is now available 📦️, with important fixes for high memory consumption while uploading files and for faulty scrolling after navigating across domains—among others 🛠️

Release notes and source packages are at the usual location: https://webkitgtk.org/2023/02/15/webkitgtk2.38.5-released.html

Did you know that the built-in media controls included with WebKitGTK allow changing the playback speed?

Use the gear icon to skim over content faster, which can be useful to go over the amazing amount of talk recordings done every year at conferences like @fosdem

@elementary There is also a @GTK 4 migration guide in the works for WebKit, which can be found at https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/unstable/migrating-to-webkitgtk-6.0.html

While the API is not yet completely set on stone, the changes detailed in the documentation are here to stay 👷🏾♀️🛠️

Nice to see that the Gir.Core project, which provides modern C# bindings for @GTK and other GObject-based librarias, has released version 0.3.0 with support for WebKitGTK. Congrats! 🎉

This means that now .NET applications can embed web views in their user interface!

There are even a couple of code examples: https://github.com/gircore/gir.core/blob/main/src/Samples/WebKit2-5.0/JavascriptCall/Program.cs

WebKitGTK is a @webkit based web engine designed to integrate seamlessly with the @GTK toolkit and other technologies like @GStreamer and libsoup typically used in the @gnome desktop.

Our #introduction comes with a screenshot of the sample “MiniBrowser” running with GTK4 on a Wayland session—probably this should replace the old picture in the website 😉 🌐