Epiphany & GNOME & nerdy stuff reinout | 18 Dec 2009 01:00 pm
Hackfest day two
The hackfest is in full force now. Behdad arrived yesterday evening (without luggage) and he and Evan are now working on making WebKitGTK+ use the Harfbuzz layout engine.
Xan finished made a first version of the DOM bindings. This means there’s an API to access the DOM without having to go through JavaScriptCore. Also Form authentication saving has been implemented!
Some more photos of the hackfest
Gustavo made overriding context menu grab by Ctrl key possible. We now have the best of two worlds: rich web applications with context menus can be used while we can also override “malicious” sites that try to block the browser context menu! He’s also working on reinstating Shift-click downloading.
Dan checked in Content-Encoding support for libsoup. Sites like Lenovo.com can now be rendered instead of just showing garbage!
