Surfin’ Safari

Archive for August, 2005

The New Form Controls: Checkbox

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005 at 8:28 pm

The first of the new form controls for WebKit has just been turned on in the latest WebKit tree. Because it is the simplest of the controls, I converted checkbox first. This new control can be completely styled via CSS, so you can decide exactly how the checked, hovered, pressed, focused and disabled [...]

Multiple Backgrounds

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005 at 4:32 pm

You may or may not have seen this blog post from the CSS WG asking for feedback on backgrounds and borders in CSS3. One of the features in the CSS3 draft is the ability to specify multiple backgrounds on a single element, thus allowing for effects like Sliding Doors to be achieved with only [...]

Known Safari incompatibilities

Posted by John Sullivan on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005 at 11:11 am

I added a page to the WebKit wiki discussing known incompatibilities between locally-built WebKit and released versions of Safari. There are only two such incompatibilities currently.

.className vs. .style

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Monday, August 1st, 2005 at 12:25 am

I just read an interesting post on quirksmode.org. The article discusses the use of className vs. the use of style as a means of updating style information via JavaScript and concludes that className is faster than style except in Safari.
Although the test in question is fantastic, the general conclusion drawn by the author is [...]