WebKit

Introduction WebGL is a new standard being worked on in the Khronos consortium. The work done in Khronos is only available to its members, so I can’t show you the spec just yet. But it will become public within the next few months after a review by Khronos members. The good news is that WebGL is [...]

Pavel has contributed some great new features for the Web Inspector and spent a lot of time on the Web Inspector to help unfork the Chromium port. Dmitry has worked on timers, workers, test improvements, and various other enhancements. Please join me in congratulating Pavel and Dmitry on their reviewer status!

Previously I touched on what exactly the Page Cache does and outlined some of the improvements we’re working on. This post is geared towards web developers and is therefore even more technical than the last. In this article I’d like to talk more about unload event handlers, why they prevent pages from going into the Page Cache, [...]

This is the first of two posts that will center around a modern browser engine feature that doesn’t usually get a lot of press: The Page Cache. Today I’ll talk a bit about what this feature is, why it often doesn’t work, and what plans we have to improve it. Page Cache Overview Some of you might be [...]

Eric Carlson has been a long-time contributer to WebKit, first through the QuickTime Plugin, and now directly as part of WebKit’s HTML5 media support. Eric knows a ridiculous amount about video and audio and we’re very glad to have him now as an official reviewer! Please join me in welcoming Eric as a [...]

WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS. This is a natural extension of 2D transforms, which we described in an earlier blog post. 3D transforms have been supported on iPhone since 2.0, and now we’re please [...]

Adam has been a long-time contributer of security fixes. Dave comes to us through the Chromium porting effort and has done quite a bit of work on HTML5 Workers as well. Please join me in congratulating Adam and Dave on their reviewer status!

Jan has been around for a very long time now, and has contributed lots of patches to the GTK+ port of WebKit. He’s worked tirelessly on the build system, and on keeping the port compilable. He has also done important work on the testing infra-structure, and contributed sizable chunks of API. Please join me in congratulating [...]

Over the last six months, Xan Lopez and Gustavo Noronha have been working tirelessly on the GTK port of WebKit. They’ve contributed over 150 improvements to WebKit in the form of bug fixes and API improvements, and have played important roles in driving the development of the GTK port forward and assisting contributors that [...]

WWDC is upon us, and we hope to see you all there! Our party is open to anyone who is interested, free of charge. So if you will be in town or you are already in town, come and meet some cool web developers, WebKit hackers, browser developers, and lots of folks with an interest [...]