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Webkit is the browser rendering engine behind many modern browsers and web components.

Webkit is a rendering engine (web browser renderer) developed by Apple as a fork of KHTML. It is fast and clean, standards compliant, and rapidly updated. Webkit is used by Google's Chrome/ium, Midori, Epiphany, Maxthon (on windows), Liferea, and more. You can tag a question with Webkit if you have an issue that affects multiple Webkit based browsers or components (such as applications using Webkit-GTK) at the same time. Usually this will not be the case with Chrome as it does not use the Webkit version used by the rest of the system.

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Connect WebKit WebView form to a Python callback?

I am writing a small Python and WebKit app; I am using WebKit as the UI for my app. What I want to do is to create an interactive element in WebKit (namely a combo box or a set of clickable regions) and when the user interacts with these elements I…
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Webkit - how to test your website on Safari 10?

I am on Linux - Ubuntu/ Kubuntu 17.04 and I need to test my website on the latest Safari browser. I found this answer so I downloaded the release from this site. This is what I downloaded webkitgtk-2.16.1.tar.xz I unzipped it but how can I use/ run…
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How to install libqtwebkit5?

How can I install libqtwebkit5 library? I need it for a Qt project. I tried with: $ sudo apt-get install libqtwebkit5 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package…
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Why is the font spacing on some websites broken?

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on a Dell Studio 15 and so far am really impressed. I could not find a solution for my problem by googling. The fonts on some websites do not have proper spacing. they overlap and are very hard to read that way. I am using…
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Is possible to run the jsc (JavaScriptCore) utility from the command line in Ubuntu, like in OSX?

In OSX there is a hidden utility called jsc, part of WebKit, that can be used to run JavaScript code on the command line. It can be used as a JavaScript console, like irb for Ruby. I have the libwebkitgtk-3.0 and -3.0-dev libraries installed, but I…
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How to install Perl Switch.pm module required to build WebKit-GTK?

I noticed that the perl version (5.14) shipped with 12.10 does not include the Switch.pm module needed while building WebKiT-GTK. Looking around on the internet I found few suggestions indicating that I should install something call p5-switch from…
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Evolution, the background of messages is always grey

With Evolution 3.6 on Ubuntu 12.10 all the email messages have grey backgrounds in the default theme (and every other one that I have tried). When using grey or black text, which is standard in most themes, the grey background makes it quite hard to…
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Building webkit from source

I tried to install the webkit applicaion from sources using this manual: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WebKit When I type: ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr the following error occurs: checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files...…
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How can I make my own custom desktop widgets?

A simple solution like HTML widgets and a transparent Webkit window would be ideal. I'm trying to make a simple background widget framework such that I can easily customize my desktop with some CSS widgets and not worry about the separate…
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How do I prevent webpages from stealing focus in Webkit?

I use a gtk TreeView to display different websites in my Python program. When the selected rows change, the web page is updated to the url field in the store. This works nicely, but a lot of web pages uses javascript to focus an input field. This…
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Continuous crashes of WebKitWebProcess

My kern.log file has large number of log entries as below. I could not figure out who is embedding webkit. Only WebkitWebProcesses I could find were started by upstart, but I am not sure if it's the same upstart process firing all these…
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Receiving drag events in a WebView in a QML application

I'm working on an app using QML and the Ubuntu SDK. One of the Pages contains a WebView. While the WebView receives click events just fine, it doesn't receive drag events, as I would like it to. I assume the problem is that drag events are being…
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Display the contents of an HTML file on my desktop

I found a very old post on Display the HTML content on desktop as a widget. This is an updated answer with the help of these two answers Answer-1 and Answer-2. I tried to run this as a python script "python file.py" (correct me if I am wrong bcz I…
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How to add Quicklists to GTK2 application?

We want to add Quicklists to our app Nitro. However Nitro uses GTK2 as it uses the pywebkitgtk library. As far as I'm aware, we can't use Quicklists because it requires PyGI which requires GTK3 and there is no pywebkitgtk for GTK3. Is there a way…
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Play videos with libwebkit in Ubuntu 11.10 server

I'm using libwebkit (with python-webkit) to render a page that plays a video. This application works fine in a Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop, Nvidia card and lots of libraries and software installed, but in a fresh Ubuntu 11.10 Server with intel 82945G/GZ…
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