We’ve just gained two new non-Apple WebKit committers, George Staikos and Alexey Proskuryakov.
George is a long-time KDE developer and has been doing work to make JavaScriptCore portable to Linux/POSIX systems, and to remerge kjs and JavaScriptCore in hopes of reuniting the JavaScript engine.
Alexey has submitted many excellent fixes, especially in the areas of text [...]
SVG has now been enabled by default in nightly builds. This version of SVG is integrated with the WebCore DOM, which means you can now mix SVG and HTML in an XML document, style them with a common CSS file, etc.. We encourage you to download the nightlies, write test cases and file [...]
OSNews has a nice article on the WebCore/khtml based Nokia S60 browser, which is based on the WebCore and JavaScriptCore components from WebKit. The article has screenshots showing off the high-quality rendering of the S60 Browser, as well as innovative new features like the minimap. It concludes: “Nokia has paved the way to become the [...]