The latest WebKit builds now support three new CSS3 properties fully and one partially.
border-image – WebKit now fully supports the CSS3 border-image property. This property allows you to slice an image into nine pieces (the corners, sides, and center) and use these images to render the border of a box. You can stretch, [...]
Anders Carlsson has become the first non-Apple employee to get cvs commit access for WebKit. He’s made great fixes for dozens of bugs all over the code, and now he will be able to commit his own patches. Congratulations, Anders!
We’ve heard a number of reports of Safari memory leaks, and we’d like to fix a bunch of these. This is a very important factor for usability of Safari and other WebKit apps. You can help! Here’s how:
Finding Leaks
The Mac OS X Developer Tools include a very useful program for leak detection. Here’s how you [...]
Here are some name changes we’re planning for some classes and functions in JavaScriptCore in the KJS namespace:
old name
new names
ValueImp
JSValue
AllocatedValueImp
JSCell
ObjectImp
JSObject
Undefined()
jsUndefined()
Null()
jsNull()
Boolean()
jsBoolean(), jsTrue(), jsFalse()
Number()
jsNumber(), jsNaN(), jsZero(), jsOne(), jsTwo()
String()
jsString()
We want to take Imp suffixes off class names of subclasses of ObjectImp/JSObject.
We’re planning to eliminate the UndefinedImp, NullImp, and BooleanImp classes, and instead use special pointer values, somewhat like [...]
The new radio buttons are now enabled (along with checkboxes) in the latest WebKit builds. Radio buttons behave as checkboxes do, meaning that they wont respond to properties like background-image or border until you disable the -khtml-appearance property. Once you do, you’ll get a completely blank slate and can define how all the [...]