WebKit

Ariya Hidayat is our newest WebKit reviewer. He has done extensive work in the Qt port with countless bugfixes, performance improvements and API designs. Please join me in congratulating Ariya on his reviewer status.

WebKit now supports styling of the scrollbars in overflow sections, listboxes, dropdown menus and textareas. For those who want to skip the article and just go right to the source, here is an example: Scrollbar Example Here is a screenshot for those ... [More] not running a recent enough WebKit: The scrollbar pseudo-element indicates that an object should use [...] [Less]

Please join me in congratulating Adam. Adam is one of our most active Qt contributers. Most recently Adam has been active solving Qt-specific bugs and cleaning up various pieces of parser and rendering code in WebCore. Adam is a go-to expert for the WebKit Qt port and now our latest reviewer!

Dimitri Glazkov is our latest WebKit reviewer. Dimitri has worked extensively on WebCore’s Chromium platform layer, the V8 JavaScript bindings layer, and recently on Chromium’s copy of the WebKit Web Inspector. Please join me in congratulating Dimitri and thanking him for his continued work on WebKit!

Darin Fisher is now a qualified WebKit Reviewer. Darin has done a lot of work on the Chromium port of WebKit, including work to clean up abstractions in the WebKit platform layer. Please join me in congratulating Darin on his reviewer status and thanking him for all of his contributions to WebKit.

Simon Fraser is the newest WebKit Reviewer. Simon has done extensive work in the render tree, and had a hand in implementing CSS Transforms, Transitions and Animations. Please join me in congratulating Simon.

WebKit now supports explicit animations in CSS. As a counterpart to transitions, animations provide a way to declare repeating animated effects, with keyframes, completely in CSS. With a recent nightly build, you can see the above animation in action. Let’s take a look at how to use CSS animations, starting with an example of a bouncing [...]

Gavin Barraclough is now a qualified WebKit Reviewer. Gavin was the driving force behind the initial versions of both SquirrelFish Extreme (our JavaScript JIT) and WREC (our RegExp JIT) and has done a tremendous job of ushering them towards maturity. Please join me in congratulating Gavin.

Tor Arne Vestbø is now a qualified WebKit Reviewer. Tor Arne has done a huge amount of work on the Qt port of WebKit, including advanced work such as a Phonon port of the media back end for the element. He’s also helped to enhance our cross-platform abstraction layer. Please join me in congratulating [...]

It has been nine months since our last Web Inspector update and we have a lot of cool things to talk about. If you diligently use the Web Inspector in nightly builds, you might have seen some of these improvements, while other subtle changes might have gone unnoticed. Some of the Web Inspector improvements were contributed [...]