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Archive for October, 2006

Sam Weinig is a WebKit Reviewer

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 at 6:00 pm

Sam Weinig is now a qualified WebKit reviewer. Sam has done a lot of coding in different areas of WebKit, including large refactoring changes and coding style cleanup, as well as large projects like autogenerating the Objective-C DOM bindings. At this point, he probably knows the coding style guidelines better than most of the existing [...]

Optimizing Page Load Time (and a little about the Debug menu)

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Monday, October 30th, 2006 at 11:28 pm

We don’t usually just repost content from other blogs here. But a lot of web developers seem to read this site, and those of us who work on WebKit are totally into loading web pages as fast as possible. With that in mind, here’s a great article on Optimizing Page Load Time. I recommend reading [...]

Adobe Apollo Uses WebKit

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Monday, October 30th, 2006 at 3:11 am

A few months ago, Adobe announced Apollo, a tool that lets you build desktop applications based on Flash and web technologies like HTML and JavaScript. A bunch of blog posts have features whizzy screenshots. This is pretty cool stuff, you can use all your web development skills to make slick looking desktop apps.
Even more exciting, [...]

Color Spaces

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Sunday, October 22nd, 2006 at 4:37 am

I was pointed to this article about color spaces in Web browsers. The ultimate point of the article, that it would be good for a Web browser to be “Color Smart”, i.e., to support not only embedded color profiles in images but also to correct unprofiled images to sRGB is a sound one. [...]

Safari Market Share Continues to Increase

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 at 1:23 pm

According to recent reports, Safari market share is still increasing. According to one survey, it’s up to 3.56%. The total including other WebKit-based browsers could be even higher, it’s hard to tell from the somewhat thin stats. It’s cool to see WebKit getting more and more users in any case.