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I wish WebKit GTK was more performant in general (and also in the MDN compatibility list but its another topic). It is getting better but it really is a blocker

by Sytten 3y ago

I wish WebKit GTK was more performant in general (and also in the MDN compatibility list but its another topic). It is getting better but it really is a blocker on shipping quality application with Tauri on Linux. There is a reason most apps using native webviews only target macos and windows, WebKit GfK is mostly undocumented for frontend engineers and often very much outdated / not installed on end user machines.

TingPing 3y ago
The performance improvements of WebKitGTK aren't small, in my personal benchmarks on like MotionMark, performance has doubled in recent years and that is before Skia.
Wowfunhappy 3y ago
> I wish WebKit was [...] in the MDN compatibility list Are the capabilities substantially different from Apple webkit?
- TingPing 3y ago
  The majority of web features are the same, though some do require some platform specific work. There are a few big differences like WebRTC support isn't in WebKitGTK releases.
  - Wowfunhappy 3y ago
    > There are a few big differences like WebRTC support isn't in WebKitGTK releases. Ah, thanks—I can see how that's the kind of thing you would want to see in a compatibility table!
prosody 3y ago
Adding to this wishlist, if it were available on Windows then it would be an option for a cross-platform webview widget, but it hasn’t supported it for a while now.