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WebKitGTK+ 1.1.90
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.90?
- Display server side messages during HTTP auth, since they
sometimes contain important information for the authentication
process.
- Reduce creation time for WebKitWebView widgets by reusing
dictionary structs used for spell-checking instead of creating a
new one for each instance.
- Implement WebKitWebView::geolocation-policy-decision-requested,
emitted when a frame inside the WebView wants to get its position
through geolocation.
- Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-spatial-navigation to control
whether Spatial Navigation is enabled or not. Spatial Navigation
allows the user to move through the elements in a page using only
the keyboard; this is similar to caret browsing, but with less
focus on accessibility since instead of presenting the exact
layout of the page to the user a more "logical" way of browsing
through its contents is allowed. A specification of this feature
can be seen at
http://www.w3.org/TR/WICD/#current-focus-point-algorithm
- Add a new build option, --enable-fast-mobile-scrolling. At the
moment this only disables fixed backgrounds when there are no
other fixed elements in a page, since they generally make
scrolling very slow and thus are a big burden in some mobile
environments.
- GTK+ Input Method support has received a big overhaul, and most of
them should work pretty well now.
- All known redraw issues in the plugin support (especially with the
Java plugin) have been fixed.
- Various fixes to the MediaPlayer code to improve responsiveness
and avoid lagging on position reporting.
- Lots of bugfixes and other improvements.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.22
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.22?
- Preliminary support for Java plugins. Basic functionality is
there, but there are still a few rough edges. Also newly
introduced is a new WebKitWebSetting, 'enable-java-applet', which
controls whether WebKit will recognize the non-standard <applet>
tag.
- Add WebKitWebSettings::auto-resize-window; when enabled, WebKit
will act upon the DOM methods that change the size and/or position
of the window containing a WebView (window.{moveTo, resizeTo,
moveBy, resizeBy}).
- Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-file-access-from-file-uris; when
enabled, each file:// URI will be assigned its own security
domain.
- Lots of bugfixes, especially in the PageCache support.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.21
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.21?
- New custom-made GStreamer source element that uses the WebCore
network layer to download media data; this makes sure any headers
and cookies will automatically get added when making requests.
- WebKit will now let libsoup know who the first party for a given
message is, making it possible to implement accept/deny policies in
Soup.
- The usual stream of fixes, and improvements
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.20
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.20?
- Fixes to the HTML5 Media Player infrastructure to satisfy sites
that require cookies, and Referer to be sent; this makes
WebKitGTK+ able to support the new HTML5 support added to Youtube,
and Vimeo, for instance.
- Windowless plugin support is finally here, making it possible to
get plugins to behave on various web pages.
- The usual stream of fixes, and improvements
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.19
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.19?
- Improvements to AtkText implementation
- RGBA colormap support has been added
- Improvements to the HTML5 media player
- Crashes related to clipboard handling, which were hitting many
users and seemed to be random have been fixed
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.18
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.18?
- Add methods to set and get a cache model in WebKitGTK+. We offer
two possibilites: document viewer (no caches are used) and browser
(similar to the previous defaults).
- Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-page-cache. Controls whether the
Page Cache is enabled or not. For details about what the page
cache is and does see
http://webkit.org/blog/427/webkit-page-cache-i-the-basics/
The page cache is disabled by default, since the gtk+ port still
presents some small bugs when it's enabled.
- Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-site-specific-quirks. Controls
whether a series of page-specific workarounds are used by WebKit.
- Use Content-Encoding support available in libsoup 2.28.2 and
newer.
- Add WebKitWebSettings::enable-default-context-menu. Controls
whether webkitgtk+ will show a default context menu on right click
in the view. Note that even with the property set to FALSE right
clicks can be handled by the page, either by actions or by
ad-hoc in-page context menus.
- Make the WebKitWebView::icon-loaded signal carry a string with the
favicon's URI. This is an API break, but the signal already had a
broken signature and was useless anyway, so it's extremely
unlikely that anybody was using it. Also, add the 'icon-uri'
property to the view, holding the URI for its current favicon.
- Respect Content-Disposition header in downloads (fixes downloads
in gmail).
- Various accessibility improvements.
- Many bugfixes.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.17
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.17?
- New APIs to show and close the web inspector and to inspect an
element at the given coordinates.
- New property, WebKitWebSettings::tab-key-cycles-through-elements,
controls whether TAB is simply interpreted as another keystroke or
is used to cycle through the elements in a page.
- Many a11y improvements.
- The usual amount of random bugfixes.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.16
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.16?
- Add optional support to generate the gobject-introspection
gir/typelib files. Enable with --enable-introspection, it's off by
default.
- Add a new load status value, WEBKIT_LOAD_FAILED, emitted when
there's an error during the load process. This is the natural
companion to WEBKIT_LOAD_FINISHED, which is only emitted when the
load finished succesfuly.
- Ensure that keyboard events filtered by GtkIMContext still create
the proper DOM events.
- Many a11y improvements: caret browsing fixes, expose heading
levels, more accessible roles supported, more work in correctly
showing the element's ancestry list, improved support for lists,
etc.
- Many improvements to our media support.
- Add a new setting to control DOM pastes
(document.execCommand("Paste"))
- Many, many bugfixes all over the place.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.15
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.15?
- New API to get the subresources from a WebKitWebDataSource. This
provides a way of accessing all the resources that compose the
view to which the data source is attached.
- A new function, webkit_web_view_get_hit_test_result, which allows
to do a 'hit test' on the coordinates specified by a mouse
event. A hit test provides context information about that point in
the document, like whether it's an image, a link, an input box,
etc.
- Our DumpRenderTree implementation now supports eventSender, which
allows us to run many more LayoutTests and make WebKitGTK+ more
stable and feature-complete.
- JSNES runs 6x faster: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/48573
- The usual small improvements and bugfixes.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.14
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.14?
- New API has been added to WebKitWebFrame to allow applying
scrollbars policy as requested by web applications to the main
frame; if the parent of the WebKitWebView widget is a
GtkScrolledWindow, policy is applied by the default handler.
- A new API has been added to help dealing with the various
resources that are downloaded to compose the final rendering; you
can now obtain the source code for a page that is loaded, for
instance.
- A new property has been added to WebKitWebView to allow setting it
to "View Source" mode.
- HTML5 database has gained API to manage the individual databases,
including usage and quota.
- A new signal `resource-request-starting' has been added to the
WebKitWebView to allow modification of outgoing requests for every
resource.
- Connection limit has been increased to 60 total connections, 6
per-host, matching other browsers more closely; this seems to have
improved loading time of some sites.
- Undo/redo support has been added to editable texts.
- The usual stream of small improvements and bug fixes.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.13
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.13?
- GNOME Keyring support was removed in favor of the new Password
Manager soup feature; to get exactly the same behavior,
applications should use SoupPasswordManagerGNOME. This requires
libsoup 2.27.91 or newer.
- Several accessibility improvements, including support for testing
the a11y infrastructure in our layout tests.
- You can now enable/disable HTML5 offline application cache using a
new setting added to WebKitWebSettings.
- Drag support has landed, meaning you can start playing with HTML5
drag and drop support; drop support is still missing.
- A crash with scripts closing windows has been fixed.
- Image cursors support has been added.
- The usual stream of small improvements and bug fixes.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.12
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.12?
- Fix WebKitSoupAuthDialog to only save passwords in gnome-keyring
(if enabled) when authentication succeeds.
- Implement a proper size_request method for WebKitWebView. The
widget will request the size of the whole page as its size
requisition.
- Many a11y improvements.
- The usual amount of other misc fixes.
- WEBKIT_DEBUG variable now accepts channel names in any case
again.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.11
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.11?
- WebKit has got a new feature - a XSS auditor, that should improve
security; this feature is still experimental, and disabled by
default, but applications can enable it using the setting.
- The hackish content sniffing code that was beig used to avoid
pages requesting downloads instead of displaying content has been
replaced by usage of a new Soup feature, which implements proper
content sniffing.
- More accessibility work, including fixes for problems which were
critical for a possible GNOME 2.28 release.
- Pasting rich text from other browsers should now work as expected.
- The usual amount of misc fixes.
=================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.10
=================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.10?
- WebKitNetworkRequest has now GObject properties for its URI and
the SoupMessage that backs it up.
- Fix AtkText methods get_selection and get_n_selections to not use
the global selection but only the selection that belongs to the
object being used.
- Fix a crasher when emitting the a11y signal 'text-caret-moved' in
some situations with debug builds.
================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.9
================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.9?
- Scrolling once again received a lot of love, and many subtle
problems and bugs were killed, and we now get correct behavior in
acid2; a number of smaller improvements are in the queue.
- Accessibility keeps gaining better support. On this release a lot
of work was done on the AtkText interface implementation.
- WebKitNetworkRequest now carries with it all the information
regarding the request, not only the URI. This means you will no
longer miss headers such as Referer when passing NetworkRequest
objects from a callback to webkit_web_frame_load_request.
================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.8
================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.8?
- We found out that WebKitWebHistoryItems were being kept with a
reference count of 2 instead of 1 as they should; nobody should be
relying on that, but if you hit reference counting problems with
items you were creating yourself, this is for you.
- You can now copy images from the web page to the clipboard.
- Improvements were made to the Plugin handling code.
- Scroll events will now be correctly reported to web applications.
- You can now embed arbitrary widgets as if it was a plugin, with
the new "create-plugin-widget" signal.
- The atk_text_get_text_{at,after,before}_offset methods are now
implemented for all boundary types except LINE_AFTER and
LINE_BEFORE.
- The usual stream of minor fixes and improvements, as always.
================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.7
================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.7?
- This release includes a security fix:
SVGList::insertItemBefore would not perform a bounds check on the
index it was provided, potentially leading to a buffer overflow.
- New frame loading properties supersede various load-* signals, and
are also accessible in the WebView, for convenience, making this
API saner.
- JIT is now supported for X86-64 on Linux, and enabled by default!
- A regression on webkit_web_view_load_string has been fixed, making
it work correctly again when the document uses encodings which may
use more than 1 byte per character.
- Yet more work has been done to the ATK support, caret browsing
support improvements in particular.
- Filenames suggested by the Download functionality now correctly
use the filename given by the host, if available.
- Build fixes for IA64, and AMD64
- gtk-doc support has also improved, and you should now be able to
cd WebKit/gtk/docs and type make docs, if you --enable-gtk-doc on
configure, as long as you build with srcdir == builddir.
- More crashes and other bugs fixed, and small improvements made
under the hood.
================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.6
================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.6?
- Several ATK support additions and fixes got landed, with many
roles being now implemented, providing better accessibility.
- Caret browsing is now available.
- Spelling check has been implemented using Enchant; the API is
still lacking, and some of the functionality still needs to be
improved, though.
- Error reporting is now available, with default error pages, and
API that allows the application to override the default behavior;
localization of those pages is still not supported, but planned.
- More crashes and other bugs fixed.
================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.5
================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.5?
- Added gtk-doc support to the build system. It is not fully
integrated yet, so some manual tweaking is still needed.
- Minimum required GTK+ version is now 2.10.
- Added l10n support with gettext. Translations are stored in
WebKit/gtk/po/.
- Many improvements to the ATK support. It's good enough to provide
a basic user experience with Accerciser now, but we'll keep
improving it in further releases.
- New printing API that allows applications to control and monitor
the printing process, when requested by javascript or started by
the user.
- Many bugfixes.
================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.4
================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.4?
- WebKitWebView gained uri and title properties, deprecating the
usage of the title-changed signal.
- Basic functionality for HTML5 media tags has been achieved; there
are many unimplented methods, and rough edges still, though.
- Font rendering received quite some love, with layouting, and
memory handling fixes, and at least one less crash.
- A new signal, new-window-policy-decision-requested, has been added
to WebKitWebView, that makes it possible for the application to
correctly decide what to do when new windows are requested.
- A bug that made tooltips for consecutive links not update their
location was fixed.
- Several improvements were made to the HTTP backend, including
making it more robust when talking to servers which send bad
Content-Type headers.
- WebKitWebView now uses the GtkBinding system to handle key events,
which means that the user is now able to customize the keys used
for various operations, and that many subtle bugs have been fixed.
================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.3
================
The 1.1.3 release was just a quick bug fix release, because we made a
mistake in library versioning.
================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.2
================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.2?
- Added support for downloads: a new signal, 'download-requested',
will be emitted by WebKit when a dowload is requested. On top of
that, the download process has been encapsulated in a new object,
WebKitDownload, which allows the user to control it or to start
new downloads from the client side.
- Added webkit_web_view_get_encoding to get the automatic encoding
of the current page.
- Added GObject properties for 'encoding' and 'custom-encoding'.
- Added 'javascript-profiling-enabled' property to the WebInspector,
which allows to enable and disable the profiling functionality.
- Added API to create and add history items to WebKit's history.
- Improved debugging support with WEBKIT_DEBUG environment
variable. Most of the settings will only give useful output for
debug builds, but WEBKIT_DEBUG=Network will log all HTTP traffic
form libsoup to console. See WebCore/platform/gtk/LoggingGtk.cpp
for all the options available.
- Lots of bugfixes.
================
WebKitGTK+ 1.1.1
================
What's new in WebKitGTK+ 1.1.1?
- ABI compatibility with 1.0.3 was broken, so you will need to
recompile your application against 1.1.1
- Support for the CURL backend was dropped, libsoup is the only HTTP
backend now.
- webkit_get_default_session, to get the SoupSession used internally
by WebKit.
- 'create-web-view' signal, emitted when the creation of a new
window is requested.
- 'navigation-policy-decision-requested' signal, emitted when a
navigation to another page is requested.
- 'mime-type-policy-decision-requested' signal, emitted each time
WebKit is about to show a URI with a given MIME type.
- Support for the Web Inspector
(see http://webkit.org/blog/197/web-inspector-redesign/)
- HTTP authentication support, with optional gnome-keyring storage.
- New load functions: webkit_web_view_open, webkit_web_view_load_uri
and webkit_web_view_load_request. The old
webkit_web_view_load_string and webkit_web_view_load_html_string
are now deprecated.
- webkit_web_view_reload_bypass_cache
- webkit_web_view_{get,set}_custom_encoding, to override the
encoding of the current page.
- Improved stability and lots of bugfixes.