Last week in WebKit:
Tab sizing and strings for IndexedDB

May 14, 2012

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A total of 650 commits landed in WebKit’s repositories last week, ending with revision 116915.

Web Inspector’s search box supports CSS selectors again, JavaScriptCore timers will now show up on the timeline and a context menu has been added for tabs.

Text decorations, such as underlines, will now be rendered for text in :first-line selectors. Implementation of the :first-letter selector was aligned with the specification. Eric landed stylesheet inheritance support for seamless iframes, as well as the ability to inherit styles from their parent iframe. The RadioNodeList interface is now supported, background-size is now part of the “background” shorthand and, albeit disabled, the <intent> element has landed.

IndexedDB now uses strings instead of numeric constants. Violation reports generated by Content Security Policy now also include the referer, original policy and the URL which got blocked. The File System API is now able to deal with cross-file system operations, widths and heights are now exposed for <input type=image> images, and the offsetLeft property was broken when used together with CSS Columns.

WebKit has also gained support for the tab-size CSS property. This property, which is also supported by Firefox and Opera, allows you to define the number of spaces a tab should be equal to.

Included among other minor updates on the WebKit website, the conditions under which the WebKit trademark can be used are now available on the Mac OS Forge website.

Other changes which occurred last week:

  • Half a megabyte of memory was saved by Andreas when viewing the full HTML5 specification.
  • The IETC CSS Values and Units tests have been added to WebKit’s test suite.
  • A first step towards implementing the HTML Media Capture API has been made.
  • Pages served with an XHTML-MP doctype will now automatically use a suitable viewport.