luakit - browser framework

Summary of changes since 2010.12.25-r2:

• All "chrome" pages now use the luakit:// scheme
• Bookmarks now accessed via luakit://bookmarks
• Moved bookmark binds into lib/bookmarks.lua
• Pass WebKitHitTestResult to every webview button signal (to detect clicking on link, image, media, selection or editable elements (or a combination thereof))
• Now possible to detect double clicking on GTK widgets or in the webview
• The "form-active" & "root-active" signals are now raised in lua (previously the webview button callback functions)
• Move all mouse binds to "all" mode
• Ignore middle clicks in editable elements (thanks to the button signal context table)
• Revert fancy domain/ip matching in search_open window method (doesn't play nice unicode characters). Now the function checks for a single argument with '.' or '/' characters (to detect a uri)
• Add sqlite3 library which allows you to open, create and or query sqlite3 databases from lua
• Save history with sqlite3 databases
• View history via luakit://history (with search & pagination support)
• Add helper method w:activate() which simulates an Enter press in the command input bar
• Update domain property example for user stylesheets (needs a file:// for local resources)
• Bug fixes in lib/follow.lua (non-visible labels in some locales and placing labels outside the viewport)
• Add :bookmarks command to open luakit://bookmarks
• Re-factored lib/follow.lua JavaScript code to make it easier to debug
• Move the label making function outside of the JavaScript in lib/follow.lua so that users can write custom functions to modify the label order, sorting and or text
• Add webview method to return a table of light userdata (pointers) to the currently visible frames in the webview (to allow us to execute JavaScript on any specific frame and allows reliable link hinting across frames)
• Add 0 and $ vim-like scrolling binds
• Fix Makefile partial building issue
• Add optional proxy indicator widget to status bar (integrated with lib/proxy.lua)
• Fixed webkit downloads to include referrer (and cookie headers) when making download request
• Open link in new background tab when Control clicked
• Parse luakit startup uris with search_open function (allows luakit "imdb Patrick Stewart")
• Bugfix: found package module was left on lua stack after lua environment init
• Indicate failed search with red input bar (changeable in users theme)
• Stop timers when downloads not running
• Merge speed_timer & status_timer in lib/downloads.lua
• Fixed clearing of hints on navigate
• Remove deprecated Lua 5.0 argument syntax in lousy.util.join
• Add soup library which allows you to add cookies directly into the custom LuakitCookieJar and attach signals to update a cookie database when new cookies are added or deleted from the jar. The second aspect of the soup library is it's authentication signals and auth dialog
• Modifications made to the formfiller script which allows saving/loading of http authentication credentials
• Modified signal_object_emit function to allow signals to return values
• Fixed bug in luaH_object_emit_signal which cause premature exiting of signal callback executing when nret was 0
• Add search_open case for about:blank
• Add lua mode (I.e. a cut down lua code prompt, so no multi-line input or result printing in the window yet)
• Move common GObject property setting/getting code into common/property.c
• The lib/cookies.lua library which saves all cookies in a sqlite3 database uses the mozilla cookies schema (if you so desire it you can use your firefox cookies in luakit or even share a cookies database between browsers)
• Add :tabhistory menu to navigate (or open in new tabs/windows) the current tabs history
• Add luakit.time() function to return nanosecond precision time (needed for cookie timestamps)
• Move all libsoup properties in the webview properties table to a properties table in the soup library
• Use pkg-config and conditional statements in the Makefile config to auto-detect the correct lua-5.1 spec-file name and check most dependencies are installed
• Set correct file permissions on installed files (lua scripts don't need a +x)
• Compile luakit with USE_LUAJIT=1 make option to use the Just-In-Time compiler for Lua. Increases performance on lua-bound operations by a large amount. See http://luajit.org and http://luajit.org/performance.html for more information about LuaJIT
• Add lousy.util.table.values to clone a table with all values as array items
• Load hosts from /etc/hosts for use by search_open
• Check for file in filesystem in search_open
• Add view:can_go_back() and view:can_go_forward() webview methods
• Add a vimperator-like history position indicator in the statusbar
• Add two lib/follow.lua label making options: reverse labels & sort labels (after reverse). In some cases reversed labels can equate to less key presses
• Refactor clib/download.c to return meaningful download error messages
• Add options to disable /etc/hosts loading or checking for filepaths in search_open
• Make lousy.bind.match_* functions return false on no match
• Make add_cmds(...) function a wrapper around add_binds("command", ...)
• Ignore blank commands (not error)
• Detect bangs in commands (I.e. :command! args) and set opts.bang to true when bang detected
• Update binds to use bang syntax
• w:close_win now emits "can-close" signal to check if it can close the last window (so far it will only prevent you from closing if downloads are running)
• Make w.mode table immutable & get current mode name from w.mode.name
• Add mode options "passthrough", "reset_on_focus" & "reset_on_navigation" which removes the need to check for mode options/features by mode name
• Emit "root-active" signal on button release (fixes some bugs when clicking on links/buttons from insert mode and missing the button because the "-- INPUT --" prompt is hiding)
• Possible fix for the opening two windows bug: forgot to return true in "new-window-decision" signal when opening new tab
• Allow focus events to be caught
• Use lua_toboolean to check signal return types (otherwise if a user returns a non-boolean type the lua error function will longjmp leaving the incorrect value on the stack)
• Add lousy.uri module for parsing uris and converting uri query components into tables for easy getting/setting of "?a=b&c=d" options
• Use cookie domain matching rules in domain props
• Modify chrome rule patterns to match against host/path only (ignoring scheme as only luakit:// schemes will be checked)
• Add lousy.util.table.copy which is similar to table.clone but it also copies the metatable (useful for cloning some class instances)
• os.exists(path) returns path if found
• Add luakit.dev_paths for use by lua scripts
• Set window icon by default on all windows
• Modify luakit.spawn to allow a callback function for when the process terminates (could be useful for external editing scripts)
• Add missing luaH_object_gc calls in clib/download.c and clib/timer.c
• Successfully made luakit more awesome

More information can be found in the git commit logs.

You can browse the luakit-2011.04.04 source code here:

https://github.com/mason-larobina/luakit/tree/2011.04.04

Or download the luakit-2011.04.04 source tarball from here:

https://github.com/mason-larobina/luakit/tarball/2011.04.04

Special thanks to the following people for contributing to this release: André Aparício, Chris van Dijk, Fabian Streitel, HarryD, Javier Rojas, Pete Elmore, Piotr Husiatyński, Stjujsckij Nickolaj and Vasuvi.