Karelia Software has released a beta of Sandvox, a personal web publishing tool that provides rich live HTML editing based on WebKit. Check out their screenshots of features like CSS-based themes and pagelets and try it out for yourself.
Now that we’ve moved to Subversion, we’re making some changes to our directory structure. At the moment WebCore contains both a khtml directory and a ksvg2 directory. Although these are two separate libraries in KDE, in our code they are merged together (for the purposes of Compound Document support as well as speed), [...]
I would like to introduce a new addition to WebKit—the Web Inspector. The Web Inspector lets you browse the live DOM hierarchy in a compact HUD style window, catering to the needs of web developers and WebKit hackers alike.
The Web Inspector highlights the node on the page as it is selected in the hierarchy. You [...]
Anders Carlsson, our first non-Apple committer, is now also our first non-Apple reviewer. Please join me in congratulating Anders.
I spent a few hours hooking up WebCore’s text rendering engine to SVG, and now we have basic SVG text support going. Here’s an example showing both fancy text features (multiple, high-quality, anti-aliased fonts) and fancy SVG features (the text is skewed and rotated):
Here’s the actual SVG file if you have a fresh WebKit build [...]
The WebKit cvs repository has been successfully migrated to subversion. We’ve posted new instructions for getting the code. Give it a whirl, or try a nightly build.
Update: Mark Rowe, our nightly build wizard, has provided a tarball of a fresh anonsvn checkout. Downloading this may be faster than pulling straight from the server, and updates [...]