WebKit

Another nice feature from the HTML5 draft specification is now available in the WebKit nightly builds for Mac OS X. The new HTML5 and elements add native support for embedding video and audio content in web pages. They also provide a rich scripting API for controlling playback. Adding video to a web page is almost as simple [...]

We have another cool new CSS feature to talk about: animation specified in CSS. There is a lot of ground to cover here, so we’ll start with the basics first. The simplest kind of animation that we’ve added support for is called a transition. Normally when the value of a CSS property changes, the [...]

Apple’s new commercial for the iPod touch prominently features Safari - in fact the word “Safari” appears in giant letters. We are bursting with pride for Safari and this historic recognition of its global contributions. As a special fun bonus, the name of the band that does the song in the ad is CSS.

WebKit now has rudimentary support for specifying transforms through CSS. Boxes can be scaled, rotated, skewed and translated. The current nightly builds support affine transformations. A transform can be specified using the -webkit-transform ... [More] property. It supports a list of functions, where each single function represents a transform operation to apply. You can [...] [Less]

The current working spec for the HTML5 standard has a lot of exciting features we would eventually like to implement in WebKit. One feature we felt was exciting enough to tackle now even though the spec is still in flux is client-side database storage. So for the last few weeks andersca, xenon, and [...]

WebKit now supports CSS @font-face rules. With font face rules you can specify downloadable custom fonts on your Web pages or alias one font to another. This article on A List Apart describes the feature in detail. All of the examples linked to in that article work in WebKit now. @font-face is on [...]

For the first time, Safari has crossed the 5% threshold in the Net Applications browser market share survey to reach an all time high of 5.07%. Wow! It’s been a long, bumpy ride from the 2.15% share in 2005, when the WebKit Open Source project launched. With Safari 3 coming soon, we can only expect [...]

I’m pleased to announce that Simon Hausmann is now a WebKit reviewer. Simon has been doing great work with the Qt port. I would also like to announce that Alp Toker is now a WebKit reviewer for the Gtk port. Please join me in congratulating Simon and Alp.

We don’t usually recommend checking for specific user agents; it’s usually better to test for capabilities directly. But sometimes you need to work around a behavior difference that can’t be tested any other way. For those times, we have a WebKit detection script that properly checks for the WebKit engine (not just Safari) and [...]

A float is a renderer that is designed to shift all the way to the left side or all the way to the right side of a paragraph. The lines of the paragraph then flow around the floating object avoiding it. You can see an example of a float in this very paragraph. [...]