Base-Art - WebKit

From WebKit/GStreamer to rust-av, a journey on our stack’s layers

Philippe Normand — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:15:00 +0200

In this post I’ll try to document the journey starting from a WebKit issue and ending up improving third-party projects that WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit depend on.

I’ve been working on WebKit’s GStreamer backends for a while. Usually some new feature needed on WebKit side would trigger work …

GNOME Web Canary is back

Philippe Normand — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0200

This is a short PSA post announcing the return of the GNOME Web Canary builds. Read on for the crunchy details.

A couple years ago I was blogging about the GNOME Web Canary flavor. In summary this special build of GNOME Web provides a preview of the upcoming version of …

WebRTC in WebKitGTK and WPE, status updates, part I

Philippe Normand — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:30:00 +0100

Some time ago we at Igalia embarked on the journey to ship a GStreamer-powered WebRTC backend. This is a long journey, it is not over, but we made some progress …

Introducing the GNOME Web Canary flavor

Philippe Normand — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 14:00:00 +0200

Today I am happy to unveil GNOME Web Canary which aims to provide bleeding edge, most likely very unstable builds of Epiphany, depending on daily builds of the WebKitGTK development version. Read on to know more about this.

Until recently the GNOME Web browser was available for end-users in two …

Catching up on WebKit GStreamer WebAudio backends maintenance

Philippe Normand — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 13:45:00 +0100

Over the past few months the WebKit development team has been working on modernizing support for the WebAudio specification. This post highlights some of the changes that were recently merged, focusing on the GStreamer ports.

My fellow WebKit colleague, Chris Dumez, has been very active lately, updating the WebAudio implementation …

Web-augmented graphics overlay broadcasting with WPE and GStreamer

Philippe Normand — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0200

Graphics overlays are everywhere nowadays in the live video broadcasting industry. In this post I introduce a new demo relying on GStreamer and WPEWebKit to deliver low-latency web-augmented video broadcasts.

Readers of this blog might remember a few posts about WPEWebKit and a GStreamer element we at Igalia worked on …

Web Engines Hackfest 2014

Philippe Normand — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:05:12 +0200

Last week I attended the Web Engines Hackfest. The event was sponsored by Igalia (also hosting the event), Adobe and Collabora.

As usual I spent most of the time working on the WebKitGTK+ GStreamer backend and Sebastian Dröge kindly joined and helped out quite a bit, make sure to read …

WebKitGTK and WPE now supporting videos in the img tag

Philippe Normand — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:00:00 +0200

Using videos in the <img> HTML tag can lead to more responsive web-page loads in most cases. Colin Bendell blogged about this topic, make sure to read his post on the cloudinary website. As it turns out, this feature has been supported for more than 2 years in Safari, but …

Introducing the WebKit Flatpak SDK

Philippe Normand — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 18:50:00 +0200

Working on a web-engine often requires a complex build infrastructure. This post documents our transition from JHBuild to Flatpak for the WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit development builds.

For the last 10 years, WebKitGTK has been relying on a custom JHBuild moduleset to handle its dependencies and (try to) ensure a reproducible …

HTML overlays with GstWPE, the demo

Philippe Normand — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0100

Once again this year I attended the GStreamer conference and just before that, Embedded Linux conference Europe which took place in Lyon (France). Both events were a good opportunity to demo one of the use-cases I have in mind for GstWPE, HTML overlays!

As we, at Igalia, usually have a …

Review of the Igalia Multimedia team Activities (2019/H1)

Philippe Normand — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:30:00 +0200

This blog post takes a look back at the various Multimedia-related tasks the Igalia Multimedia team was involved in during the first half of 2019.

GStreamer Editing Services

Thibault added support for the OpenTimelineIO open format for editorial timeline information. Having many editorial timeline information formats supported by OpenTimelineIO reduces …

Introducing WPEQt, a WPE API for Qt5

Philippe Normand — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:20:00 +0200

WPEQt provides a QML plugin implementing an API very similar to the QWebView API. This blog post explains the rationale behind this new project aimed for QtWebKit users.

Qt5 already provides multiple WebView APIs, one based on QtWebKit (deprecated) and one based on QWebEngine (aka Chromium). WPEQt aims to provide …

Web overlay in GStreamer with WPEWebKit

Philippe Normand — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 15:09:36 +0100

After a year or two of hiatus I attended the GStreamer conference which happened in beautiful Edinburgh. It was great to meet the friends from the community again and learn about what’s going on in the multimedia world. The quality of the talks was great, the videos are published …

WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2013 edition

Philippe Normand — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:54:05 +0100

So for the 5th time I attended the WebKitGTK+ hackfest and as usual I spent most of the time working on Multimedia-related tasks, well just one this year actually, WebRTC.

I think WebRTC is quite an important HTML5 specification, we all want to get rid of Skype and embrace the …

WebKitGTK+ Hackfest, 2012 edition

Philippe Normand — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:12:37 +0100

There has been some media coverage of the hackfest already so I’ll just focus on one area, Multimedia!

I think this fourth edition of the event was the first with so many hackers focusing on Multimedia:

Xabier and Zan worked on the media controls and finally landed the GStreamer …