The GNOME Foundation is pleased to announce the conclusion of the WebKitGTK+Hackfest. The hackfest was held December 9-12 and was hosted once again at the Igalia offices in A Coruña, Spain. This hackfest has been very successful with more than twenty attendees from Igalia, Collabora, Adobe, Intel, Samsung and Red Hat.
![WebKitGTK+ hackfest 2012](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8349/8263834081_87aa11efd8_z.jpg)
The hackfest was extremely productive, and highlights of the tasks that were worked on there include:
- Many improvements in Web, the GNOME web browser: a new incognito mode to minimize the risk of being tracked both on the internet and in your own computer, a slick new UI for the search, revamping the creation of Web applications by selecting better icons and names, adding undo close tabs, preventing empty download-only windows and preliminary work for the integration of the Document Viewer in the browser.
- Switching from Pango to Harfbuzz to render complex text.
- Porting the WebAudio backend to GStreamer 1.0.
- Better DOM bindings.
- Many bugs fixed for accelerated compositing with Clutter, both in ELF and GTK+ ports.
- Stabilization of the libsoup API.
- Improvements in the memory use of the V8 Javascript engine.
- 2D-canvas accelerated support using Cairo OpenGL.
- Better HTML5 media controls.
- A new API to retrieve a screenshots from web pages.
- Progress in accessibility support.
- Documentation.
The GNOME Foundation and community are very grateful to the sponsors of this event: