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Archive for September, 2006

Mitz Pettel is a WebKit reviewer

Posted by Timothy Hatcher on Monday, September 25th, 2006 at 2:16 pm

Mitz Pettel is now a qualified WebKit reviewer. Please congratulate Mitz, and/or beg him to review your patches. Along with Mitz you can ask Alexey Proskuryakov (ap) or any Apple WebKit engineer to review your patches.

Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 at 3:35 pm

OR, Close your <script> and <canvas> tags!
The relationships among HTML, XML and XHTML are an area of considerable confusion on the web. We often see questions on the webkit-dev mailing list where people wonder why their seemingly XHTML documents result in HTML output. Or we’re asked why an XML construct like <b /> doesn’t actually [...]

Strange Medium

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Sunday, September 17th, 2006 at 10:05 pm

Digging up a very old blog entry from http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200408/sizing_monospaced_fonts/, the question is asked, “What’s up with the different font sizes when the monospace font family is used?” The answer, as usual with Web browsers, is pretty interesting (which is browser developer-speak for “insanely confusing”).
The default font size displayed in a Web browser is a [...]

The FOUC Problem

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Friday, September 1st, 2006 at 10:59 pm

FOUC stands for Flash of Unstyled Content. This situation occurs whenever a Web browser ends up showing your Web page’s content without having any style information yet. It’s an interesting technical problem, because when/how a browser ends up committing the crime of FOUCing depends heavily on how the browser’s engine is architected and [...]