WebKit

Nate got his start in WebKit with helping to upstream Javascript bindings for the Chromium port into WebKit. During that work, he learned much about WebKit style as well as getting to know the bindings quite well. Since then, he continued to do a prodigious amount with the bindings and improved them in many ways. [...]

Jeremy has done a lot of work on local storage and session storage within WebKit. Much of this brought it up to date with spec changes, but he also improved it by adding quota support and fixing many bugs. As part of the Chromium port, he also worked on its WebKit api and JavaScript bindings. Please join [...]

Introduction From the W3C spec: The name “ruby” originated from the name of the 5.5 point font size in British printing, which is about half the 10 point font size commonly used for normal text. A ruby annotation is a short piece of text in smaller font, written directly above or below or – with vertical text – [...]

In addition to various rendering and canvas bug fixes, Shinichiro has been a driving force in a large number of tool improvements. In particular, he started the WebKit style checker, which has helps identify many the basic style issues in patches ... [More] which makes reviewers go smoother overall. Please join me in congratulating Shinichiro on his reviewer [...] [Less]

Laszlo Gombos is the driving force behind the port of WebKit to the Symbian platform. In addition he has contributed to the Qt port’s API and is constantly watching out for opportunities to remove dead code and clean up build systems. Please join me in congratulating Laszlo on his reviewer status

After many months of hard work, the WebGL Working Group has released its draft specification to the public. If you read my previous post about WebGL support in WebKit you’ll know that WebKit has supported WebGL for a couple of months. But until now the spec itself has not been publicly available. Now it is [...]

Dirk Schulze, also known as krit has done a great work on the cairo graphics context implementation, and is also the main developer behind the SVG filters implementation, which is hopefully nearing its debut, making WebKit fully implement SVG 1.1, and making it possible to represent many of the more complex features of painting in [...]

WebKit nightlies now support the HTML5 noreferrer link relation, a neat little feature that allows web developers to prevent browsers from sending the Referrer: header when navigating either or elements.  Just add noreferrer in the rel attribute of ... [More] a link like so: noreferrer! When example.com receives the HTTP request generated by clicking this [...] [Less]

Kenneth has been participating in WebKit development since late 2008, when he started the initial EFL port. Since early 2009 he has contributed a great deal on all fronts of the Qt port, including WebCore integration and API. He has also played an important role in making sure the GTK+ and Qt ports work together [...]

A number of exciting new features have been added to the Web Inspector since our last update. Today we would like to highlight some of those features! This post is also avaiable in Japanese (日本語), thanks to Keishi Hattori (服部慶士). If you would like to play with most of these features you will need to be [...]