WebKit

This update talks about the 665 changes 182 authors made last week, up to revision 125390. Web Inspector’s editor can now be replaced with CodeMirror by Jan Keromnes, as an experimental feature. It supports basic editing, search, replace and saving, but much more work is to be done before it’s completely usable. The function scope [...]

This week’s update talks about the 745 commits made by 186 distinct authors, up to revision 142731. The classList property moved from HTMLElement to Element, so may now be used with other types of elements as well — for example, SVG elements. Implementation of a MediaStreamAudioSourceNode for the Web Audio API has begun and audio [...]

This update discusses all 692 commits made by 182 authors to the WebKit repository last week, up to revision 123994. Web Inspector’s Settings dialog has received a new experimental option to override the Geolocation results. Experimental support for ... [More] supporting SASS source-maps has been implemented as well, and drag and drop won’t be started anymore when [...] [Less]

This update covers 621 WebKit commits, up to revision 123308. Find and replace functionality for source files has been added to Web Inspector, after less than a day of being experimental. Furthermore, an icon has been added for pausing JavaScript debugging. The top property on the window object no longer is replaceable. It’s now possible to [...]

A total of 611 commits landed last week. This update discusses them up to revision 122693. Within Web Inspector, the looks of the find bar have been updated, and several other parts of the UI are also receiving refreshments. Furthermore, the tab size now defaults to four spaces. The CSS 3 blur filter will now [...]

I’m pleased to announce that Tim Horton is now a WebKit reviewer. Tim joined the project about 12 months ago and has been a workhorse, fixing all sorts of bugs in many parts of layout and rendering. In fact, at Apple, we confidently throw just about anything at him! Of course, while that’s fun for [...]

Over the past year, Mark has been working on improving JavaScriptCore, the WebKit JavaScript engine. Among other things, he has streamlined the JSC object model and improved the performance of the JSC parallel garbage collector. Please join me in congratulating him in his new WebKit Reviewer role!

Over the past years, Yong has been working on JavaScriptCore (mainly ARM), memory handling, thread safety, graphics, networking, security fixes, as well as BlackBerry port specific bugs. He was a big contributor to the original WinCE port as well. Please join me in congratulating him in his new WebKit reviewer role.

This update discusses the 625 commits which landed in WebKit’s repository last week, up to r120570. Web Inspector switched to using Chas Emerick’s jsdifflib for creating diffs between revisions. A dock-to-right icon has been added to the status bar ... [More] , the settings screen has been rearranged and the list of local modifications may now be cleared. Furthermore, [...] [Less]

This update considers all of 587 last week’s commits until revision 119951. Web Inspector’s pretty print feature now respects the indenting preferences. Only the room domain will be expanded in the Sources and Scripts Panels and links will be opened by default in the Sources panel, falling back to either the Resources or Network panels. Zero [...]