[MacPorts] #65492: webkit2-gtk update?

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#65492: webkit2-gtk update?
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  Reporter:  RJVB         |      Owner:  mascguy
      Type:  request      |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports        |    Version:
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
      Port:  webkit2-gtk  |
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Comment (by RJVB):

 - If you're only targetting newer Macs, isn't there an option to use
 Vulkan for rendering, possibly via an external build of ANGLE?

 - At least until v2.44 it was possible to have parallel libsoup2 and
 libsoup3 based builds installed.

 - EGL can be obtained through Mesa. This is also a CPU-based
 implementation of course, but it uses LLVM to speed things up as far as
 possible and it's quite usable. (I have the impression that Flatpak
 packages on Linux use it too).

 - Webkit-GTk itself is pretty meh for the rest, at least if you want to
 use it for actual web browsing. I have a self-built v2.44.3 on my Linux
 rig and it crashes on a *lot* of sites. Of course it doesn't really help
 that there is not a single serious browser that's using it (basically only
 Epiphany, and that's comparable to an early Safari without support for
 browser extensions etc.)

 For example, does the https://www.doctolib.fr site work in your build?

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