Taking WebKitGTK+ to the big screen

We delivered this talk while attending the fifth WebKitGTK+ hackfest, kindly organized and hosted by Igalia in the city of A Coruña (Spain).

My mate Brian Holt and me delivered this talk there to explain to the attendants (and former colleagues of mine! :-)) what exactly the WebKit team from Samsung Research UK worked on during 2013, the year that I started working in that company by joining their A/V team (focused on SmartTV).

See the site of the event here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/WebKitGTK2013

Transcript

1. SRUK’s WebKit team
   Taking WebKitGTK+ to the big screen
   Brian Holt
   Mario Sánchez Prada
   2013 December 8th - 12th
   A Coruña, Spain
   

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2. About us
   Brian Holt
   Software Engineer at SRUK and member of the A/V team,
   working on performance optimizations for the SmartTV
   platform with a focus on WebKitGTK+
   WebKit contributor since early 2013
   Mainly worked in the implementation of new APIs for
   WebKit2GTK+ and automatic memory leak detection
   Mario Sanchez Prada
   Software Engineer working at SRUK as a member of the
   A/V team, working in the same project than Brian.
   WebKit contributor since 2010, reviewer since August 2013
   Mainly specialized in WebKitGTK+ and its accessibility
   layer, with some contributions to the WebKit2GTK+ API
   WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2013 Brian Holt / Mario Sanchez Prada
   

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3. What is SRUK?
   SRUK: Samsung Research UK, formerly known as
   Samsung Electronics Research Institute (SERI) UK
   Established in 1996 in Middlesex, in the lovely town of
   Staines-upon-Thames (South West of London)
   R&D center specialized in telecoms and digital TV, with
   over 250 people working in the office these days
   Focused on the development of projects around the mobile
   and TV platforms (e.g. Android, SmartTV), combined with
   research projects around specific technologies (e.g. WebKit)
   Steadily moving to working in a more transparent and
   open way, contributing back to Open Source projects on a
   general basis, as part of a general trend inside Samsung
   http://www.samsung.com/uk
   WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2013 Brian Holt / Mario Sanchez Prada
   

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4. SRUK’s WebKit team
   Currently 6 people are part of this small team
   Work performing vertical analysis and performance
   optimizations for the SmartTV platform (Linux on ARM)
   Partly focused on upstream WebKit & WebKitGTK+
   Interested in contributing upstream as much as possible,
   ideally in areas interesting for the SmartTV platform
   Started getting involved in WebKit during 2012, and
   consolidated during 2013 (1 reviewer + 4 committers)
   Looking forward to contributing more relevant patches
   during 2014 (our TVs are currently using WebKitGTK+)
   WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2013 Brian Holt / Mario Sanchez Prada
   

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5. What did we do so far?
   WebKit2GTK+ API
   Authentication API, TLS Errors, Pointer Lock API
   Accessibility
   Code refactoring, bugfixing, testing infrastructure
   Text rendering
   Vertical text, kerning
   Remote Web Inspector
   Automatic memory leak detection
   General bugfixing & gardening
   WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2013 Brian Holt / Mario Sanchez Prada
   

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6. What are we planning to do now?
   More Accessibility related work
   Moving tests away from WebKit1, WAI-ARIA, bugfixes
   Performance optimizations in our ARM-based platform
   Will contribute upstream as many patches as possible
   Graphics and text rendering related work
   Some local experiments, but still in a very early stage
   Getting involved in new areas upstream
   WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2013 Brian Holt / Mario Sanchez Prada
   

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7. Why are we here?
   Work
   Move some things forward, fix long standing issues...
   Discussions
   Current situation of WebKit, new areas to work on...
   Social
   Meet new people, meet old friends :)
   WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2013 Brian Holt / Mario Sanchez Prada
   

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8. Thanks!
   WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2013 Brian Holt / Mario Sanchez Prada
   

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