Philippe Normand: From WebKit/GStreamer to rust-av, a journey on our stack’s layers

In this post I’ll try to document the journey starting from a WebKit issue and ending up improving third-party projects that WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit depend on. I’ve been working on WebKit’s GStreamer backends for a while. Usually some new feature needed on WebKit side would trigg … | Continue reading


@base-art.net | 13 days ago

Philippe Normand: GNOME Web Canary is back

This is a short PSA post announcing the return of the GNOME Web Canary builds. Read on for the crunchy details. A couple years ago I was blogging about the GNOME Web Canary flavor. In summary this special build of GNOME Web provides a preview of the upcoming version of the underl … | Continue reading


@base-art.net | 9 months ago

Philippe Normand: WebRTC in WebKitGTK and WPE, status updates, part I

Some time ago we at Igalia embarked on the journey to ship a GStreamer-powered WebRTC backend. This is a long journey, it is not over, but we made some progress. This post is the first of a series providing some insights of the challenges we are facing and the plans for the next … | Continue reading


@base-art.net | 1 year ago