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Archive for March, 2006

Text Fields

Posted by Adele Peterson on Thursday, March 30th, 2006 at 11:37 pm

We have recently switched over to use an engine-based implementation for <input type=text>.  In doing so, our text fields are now able to use many useful css capabilities that weren’t available before.  Border-radius, border-image, and background-image are just a few that will now work with our text fields.
The implementation details are similar to the details [...]

Announcing the Safari Compatibility Hit List

Posted by ggaren on Monday, March 6th, 2006 at 3:33 pm

The WebKit site has a new addition: the Safari Compatibility Hit List.

It’s a top ten list of sites needing compatibility work. The Safari Team at Apple developed the Hit List with two goals in mind:
First, to show people that improving website compatibility is our main goal. The list is a snapshot of the most prominent [...]

S60 Browser will be presented at Mobile Monday

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Sunday, March 5th, 2006 at 5:44 pm

The Nokia S60 OSS Browser will be presented at Mobile Monday on Monday, March 6th, along with Mozilla’s Minimo. If you are in the SF Bay Area you should come see the presentation. Be prepared see a product that will exceeds your expectations about how good mobile browsing can be.

More New WebKit Committers

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Sunday, March 5th, 2006 at 5:36 pm

I’d like to announce some recent new WebKit Committers.
Antti Koivisto was one of the earliest developers of khtml. He now works on the Series 60 Browser for Nokia, based on WebCore and JavaScriptCore, and has contributed some excellent rendering patches to WebKit. Alexander Kellet worked on ksvg and Konqueror bookmarks back in the day, [...]