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:

• Accelerated composition: use clutter to provide an implementation of the accelerated code paths giving us GPU-accelerated CSS3 transforms, translations, and animations

• Take advantage of the accelerated layers insfrastructure to render video straight to a texture when possible

• Investigate the cogl backend for cairo: so we move more work from the CPU to the GPU

• WebGL: integrate the existing WebKitGTK+ implementation with OpenGL, working with cogl upstream to make sure it provides the necessary tools for that