WebKit

The new IE8 version targeting switch, announced on IEBlog and A List Apart, has been the talk of the web. Some web standards experts, like Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman see the switch in a positive light. Others, including Dean Edwards, Robert O’Callahan and Anne van Kesteren think the proposal is a bad idea. We don’t [...]

getElementsByClassName is one of the more common functions requested by JavaScript programmers (and added by JavaScript libraries); it works along the same lines as getElementsByTagName and getElementById in looking up elements of a web page by their ... [More] properties. In fact, it’s so common that in the new in-progress HTML5 specification it’s been added to the [...] [Less]

A New JavaScript Benchmark From the WebKit Team Here in WebKit-land, we strive for great performance and we love to make things faster. When doing performance work, it’s critical to be able to measure how fast you are at any given time and track changes. And it’s important to make sure your metric reflects realistic use [...]

I’m happy to announce that Holger Freyther is now a WebKit reviewer. Since arriving on the WebKit scene in early ‘07 he has proven himself to be a consistently solid contributer. After valuable work cleaning up the GTK /Qt build systems and the GTK public API he continues to help fill in other missing [...]

As Maciej said, web developer tools are a big new feature of WebKit 3. Since we first introduced the new Web Inspector back in June, Tim Hatcher (xenon in #webkit) has been spearheading the effort to make the Web Inspector an even better tool for web developers, and I wanted to give an update on [...]

Surfin’ Safari has always been a great place to get information about WebKit, from descriptions of the many new features being added to technical discussions of engine internals to announcements of WebKit being used in entirely new places. But the web is a big place, and we want to make it easier to find the [...]

Historically, new WebKit committers and reviewers have been chosen through an internal Apple process. I am pleased to announce a new open, community-based Committer and Reviewer Policy. Some highlights of the new policy: New committers and reviewers ... [More] will be chosen by the existing project reviewers. The policy treats everyone equally, regardless of corporate affiliation. There is a clear statement [...] [Less]

Lately we’ve been talking about a lot of great new features in the latest development trunk of WebKit - features like web fonts, client-side database storage, CSS transforms and CSS animation. These features will likely make it to an official release someday. But I’d like to take a step back and talk about some older [...]

Google’s Android announcement (see post below) has led to a new round of stories about WebKit in the blogosphere. Om Malik writes about The Amazing Rise of WebKit Mobile. Jason Delport echoes his sentiment in a piece titled The Rise of the WebKit Browser. Ajaxian refers to Another WebKit win with Android. And John Gordon [...]

Many of you have seen the announcement of the Android Mobile Platform (www.openhandsetalliance.com) followed by today’s release of the SDK (code.google.com/android). We (Android) were happy to highlight the use of the WebKit engine as the rendering ... [More] core for Android’s browser. We have been working on our mobile implementation of WebKit for quite some time. A [...] [Less]