Clutter WebKit port

The Clutter port of WebKit is a project to provide a web browser actor for ​Clutter and an MxWidget for Mx. This port is currently maintained outside of the official WebKit tree.

Obtaining the Clutter port

Currently the port is developed in a git repository at ​https://gitorious.org/webkit-clutter/webkit-clutter

Building the Clutter port

You can use the standard build-webkit script:

$ ./Tools/Scripts/build-webkit --clutter

Or you can use the standard autotools commands. It is recommended to make a separate build directory setting, like this:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../autogen.sh --with-port=clutter
$ make

What is coming

Now that the base functionality is already there, we are looking at these improvements, in rough order of priority:

• CSS3 transforms, translations and animations: use Clutter to implement those, reusing the animation API and reducing the amount of composition that is currently done with Cairo

• Accelerated composition: the final composition of the page is very slow in cairo, if every layer is a texture (and is cached when possible), that composition can happen in the GPU

• Removing VideoSinkGStreamer.cpp: rendering inline video straight to a texture and compositing in the GPU

• Cogl backend for Cairo: So we move more work from the CPU to the GPU

• WebGL: Reuse the existing implementation with OpenGL to render to a FBO and pass it to Clutter/Cogl for compositing