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WebKitGTK+ Accelerated Epiphany On Wayland

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 1 October 2012 at 01:55 PM EDT. Add A Comment

Igalia has accelerated WebKitGTK+ and Epiphany to work atop Wayland with the reference Weston compositor.

While WebKitGTK+ with Epiphany was easy to get working for running non-3D web-sites, for handling OpenGL code from the web browser required some manuevering. However, José Dapena was successful in getting a working version for handling WebGL and accelerated composition of layers (CSS-3D transformations, etc).

For those interested in the technical details of what it took to make WebKitGTK+ acceleration work under Wayland with the Epiphany web-browser, see this Igalia blog post.

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