Location

Apple Campus, Cupertino CA March 12-13, 2015

Schedule

Topics

• Infrastructure improvements
  • Display list drawing [smfr]
  • bmalloc [ggaren?]
  • Rendering state enforcement [smfr]
  • WebCore architecture in 5 years [smfr] [FiveYearPlan]
  • The new WebKit Network cache [antti, volunteered by chris]
  • Make filters fast all the time [dino]
  • Refactorings [weinig?]
    • FrameView/ScrollView/Widgets
    • Scrolling [bfulgham]

• CSS features
  • CSS Grid Layout [lajava]
    • Current status and roadmap .
    • CSS Box Alignment support.
  • Project Houdini topics [dino]
    • Resize events
    • CSS Parser extensions and object model
    • CSS custom properties
    • Custom layout via a box tree API
    • Custom painting of elements via JS
    • Scroll synchronisation
    • UIWorkers

• New features in ES6

• New HTML/DOM Features
  • Picture element [yoav, volunteered by dino]
  • Client-Hints [yoav]
  • Resource-Hints [yoav]
  • WebRTC (API updates, OpenWebRTC backend in GTK+ port) [adambe]

• Web Inspector topics [xenon]
  • Demo of element change tracking [brrian]
  • Web Replay status and plans [brrian]
  • Demo of JS liveness/type profiler [saamyjoon]

• WebKit for Wayland [zdobersek]

• EAWebKit [abaldeva]
  • Challenges faced by smaller/non-trunk ports. reintegration efforts
  • Testing tools/mechanisms
  • Pushing our port upstream.
  • How we can help?

• Tools and testing
  • Layout testing
    • Adjustable diff threshold for ref tests
    • Update render tree dump in test output
    • Manifest files for test parameters?
    • WebKit2 testing
    • iOS testing
  • Bugzilla improvements
    • Can we fix review clobbering?

• Process
  • How to communicate better with web developers? [Jon Davis, volunteered by Benjamin]
  • Making WebKit more welcoming to new contributors.
  • Improving collaboration on the Windows port [bfulgham]

• Building and Debugging
  • Using CMake on Mac and Windows [alexchristensen]
  • Debugging tips, tricks and feature requests ?