Web 3.12A browser to make us proud

Eduardo LimaIgalia

Strasbourg, July 27th, 2014

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Web 3.12: released March 2014(Web 3.10 released September 2013)

WebKitGTK+ 2.4.0: also released March 2014

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focus on last stable release cycle

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WebKitGTK+ 2.4

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WebKitGTK+

What happened?·Multiple Web processesDOM touch events supportPlugins cacheNew APIWebKit1 API deprecationmany bugfixes, as usual

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Multiple Web processes

by Adrian Perez

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Multiple Web processes

Essentially, one process per tabplus other auxiliary processesGoals

Enabled by default in Web, possible to opt-out

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Page crashes don't crash the browserPut vulnerable data into a separate address space

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Multiple Web processes

before 2.4

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Multiple Web processes

after 2.4

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Multiple Web processesin practice:

screenshot by Alex Diavatis

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Multiple Web processes

Opt-in/out (GSettings)

gsettings set org.gnome.Epiphany \ process-model one-secondary-process-per-web-view // or 'shared-secondary-process'

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Multiple Web processes

Opt-in/out (API)

int main(int argc, char **argv) { webkit_web_context_set_process_model ( webkit_web_context_get_default (), WEBKIT_PROCESS_MODEL_MULTIPLE_SECONDARY_PROCESSES);

/* The rest of the application code, unmodified */ }

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Multiple Web processes

by Adrian Perez

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Multiple Web processes

Downside:·More memory hungryAdded complexity on Web extensions setupAdded complexity on process management (spawning/killing)

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Multiple Web processes

It is possible for Web views to share a Web process (new API)

GtkWidget *view, *related_view, *unrelated_view;

void create_views (){ /* Create two views which share a Web Process */ view = webkit_web_view_new (); related_view = webkit_web_view_new_with_related_view (WEBKIT_WEB_VIEW (view));

/* This view will spawn a new Web Process */ unrelated_view = webkit_web_view_new ();}

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Multiple Web processes

Initializing Web extensions now (new API)·· #define WEB_EXTENSIONS_DIRECTORY /* ... */

int main (int argc, char **argv){ WebKitWebContext *context = webkit_web_context_get_default (); GVariant *data = get_data_for_web_extensions ();

webkit_web_context_set_web_extensions_directory ( context, WEB_EXTENSIONS_DIRECTORY); webkit_web_context_set_web_extensions_initialization_user_data ( context, data);

GtkWidget *view = webkit_web_view_new ();

/* ... */}

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Multiple Web processes

... and in the extension·· void webkit_web_extension_initialize_with_user_data (

WebKitWebExtension *extension, GVariant *user_data){ /* Initialize the extension, using “user_data” */}

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Multiple Web processes

More complexity: Different data per instance of a Web extension·New signal ::initialize-web-extensions(I promise next is the last slide with code)

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#define WEB_EXTENSIONS_DIRECTORY /* ... */

static voidinitialize_web_extensions (WebKitWebContext *context, gpointer user_data){ /* Web Extensions get a different ID for each Web Process */ static guint32 unique_id = 0;

webkit_web_context_set_web_extensions_directory ( context, WEB_EXTENSIONS_DIRECTORY); webkit_web_context_set_web_extensions_initialization_user_data ( context, g_variant_new_uint32 (unique_id++));}

int main (int argc, char **argv){ g_signal_connect (webkit_web_context_get_default (), "initialize-web-extensions", G_CALLBACK (initialize_web_extensions), NULL);

GtkWidget *view = webkit_web_view_new ();

/* ... */}

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DOM touch events support

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screencast by Carlos Garnacho

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Plugins cache

Plugins are synchronously scanned on first use, can't be avoidedbut now that's done once, and cached for later

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WebKit1 deprecation

WebKit1 completely removed from trunkHave you already ported your app?2.6 will no longer ship WebKit1 API

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Web 3.12

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Overview turned into an HTML page

Removed complex GTK+ widgets, along with 1000s of lines of codeOverview now a themable and animatable HTML document

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Overview turned into an HTML page

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screencast by Claudio Saavedra

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A new location/title headerbar

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screencast by Claudio Saavedra

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Most dialogs cleaned up and revamped

screenshot by Claudio Saavedra

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New designs for incognito mode

screenshot by Claudio Saavedra

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Other improvements

Configure search engine from Preferences·

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The future

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The future

Next releases: Web 3.16 for September 2014WebKitGTK+ 2.6 (a bit behind schedule)

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The future

WebKitGTK·WebRTCAccelerated-compositing support on WaylandSandbox WebProcessesNew API

Initial WebCrypto spec supportDatabase Process?

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User scripts and messagingAPI for loading arbitrary content-type

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The future

GNOME Web·Important security and stability improvements

Bring back the pop-up blockerMore multi-WebProcess models

-HTTPS blockingMixed-content blocking (HTTPS vs. HTTP)

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i.e: One process per security-domain-

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Thank You!(q&a)

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