State of Webkit

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JavaScript Core

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A Primer for Busy People

Webkit in 10 Seconds

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Browser

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OS Implementations

Webkit

A Primer for Busy People

Webkit in 10 Seconds

https://webkit.org/downloads/

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We are active contributors to Webkit

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We make Webkit GTK / WPE

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Consideration

Development

Preview

Release

Inclusion?

exploring

in public use

In development

  • CSS Logical Properties and Values L1
  • CSS Painting API L1
  • CSS Properties and Values L1
  • Font Palettes (CSS Fonts L4)
  • Geometry Interfaces
  • MediaStream Recording API (enhancements)
  • Navigation Timing L2
  • Pointer Events L2
  • Web App Manifest
  • Web Authentication
  • WebVR
  • Responsive image pre-loading
  • "Lazy" images
  • CSS overscroll-behavior
  • WebPackage

... and JavaScript

const theBiggestInt = 9007199254740991n;
const alsoHuge = BigInt(9007199254740991); // ↪ 9007199254740991n
const hugeButString = BigInt('9007199254740991'); // ↪ 9007199254740991n

Biglnt

class Counter extends HTMLElement {
  #x = 0;
   max = 10;

  clicked() {
    this.#x++;
    window.requestAnimationFrame(this.render.bind(this));
  }

  constructor() {
    super();
    this.onclick = this.clicked.bind(this);
  }

  connectedCallback() { this.render(); }

  render() {
    this.textContent = `${
        (this.#x < this.max) 
        ? 
        this.#x.toString()
        : 
        this.y.toString() 
    }`;
  }
}
window.customElements.define('uptoten-counter', Counter);

Public/Private Class Fields

  • Beacon API
  • Conic Gradients
  • CSS Text Decoration Level 4
  • Intersection Observer
  • Resize Observer
  • Visual Viewport API
  • Web Animations
  • Web Share
  • WebGL 2
  • .... more

In Preview

  • Dark Mode
  • Payment Request API
  • WebRTC Imrovements
  • Updated EME stuff
  • IntersectionObserver API
  • WebShareAPI
  • <input type=color>
  • <datalist>
  • ...and more.

In Recent Releases

Also Improvements In:

  • Bug Fixes / Web Compat
  • Performance / Memory Use
  • Accessibility
  • Security
  • WebInspector
  • WebDriver
  • Font / Gesture
  • and so much more..
:root {
    --theme-bg: darkgray;
    --theme-fg: white; 
}

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
    --theme-bg: darkgray;
    --theme-fg: white;
}

body {
    background-color: var(--theme-bg);
    color: var(--theme-fg);
}

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-adjust/#color-scheme-meta

Dark Mode

navigator.share({
    title: document.title,
    text: "The WebKit Blog",
    url: "https://webkit.org/blog"
});

Web Share API

Highlights:

 Under-celebrated Wins for Developers

<input type="color">

<datalist>

Pointer Events

Platform Self-Consistancy, Pairity and Alignment

  • window.open now supports a noreferrer to align reasoning about 'linky things' consistently
  • role=meter
  • link preloading with responsive image candidate strings (in development)
<img 
     loading='lazy' 
     src='lazy-cat.jpg' 
     onload='console.log("lazy cat");' />

(in development)

Lazy / Eager Loading Images

What's a rAF?

Before*

requestAnimationFrame

After*

Have

Need

"There's a place in the platform that does that"

const resizeObserver = new ResizeObserver(entries => {
  for (let entry of entries) {
    let size = "small"
    if (entry.contentRect.width > 400) {
      size = "medium"
    }
    if (entry.contentRect.width > 800) {
      size = "large"
    }

    entry.target.setAttribute("data-block-scale", size)
  }
})

let blocks = document.querySelectorAll(".media-block")
blocks.forEach(el => {
  resizeObserver.observe(el)
});

Resize Observer

In Preview!


function callback(entries) {
    entries.forEach((entry) => {
        if (entry.isIntersecting) {
            // do something!
        }
    });
}

let observer = new IntersectionObserver(callback,  {
    root: null,
    rootMargin: "100px"
})

let lazyElements = document.querySelectorAll('.lazy')

lazyElements.forEach((el) => {
   observer.observe(el);
})

Intersection Observer

In Preview!

In development

  • CSS Logical Properties and Values L1
  • CSS Painting API L1
  • CSS Properties and Values L1
  • Font Palettes (CSS Fonts L4)
  • Geometry Interfaces
  • MediaStream Recording API (enhancements)
  • Navigation Timing L2
  • Pointer Events L2
  • Web App Manifest
  • Web Authentication
  • WebVR

... and JavaScript

  • Responsive image pre-loading
  • "Lazy" images
  • Css overscroll-behavior

What is important to you?

Which things cause you pain?

Where would you like to see advancements in either the Web Platform at large or in Webkit specifically, and how can we help?

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