Rob Buis is now a qualified WebKit reviewer. Rob was one of the main driving forces behind ksvg2 and kcanvas, along with Nikolas Zimmerman. The code from these libraries has been integrated into WebKit to provide fully integrated HTML/SVG support. Since then, Rob has submitted many WebKit patches for SVG and in many other areas, [...]
Google has just released version 1.2 of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) with full Mac OS X support provided by WebKit. GWT allows web developers to create shiny AJAX web applications entirely in Java, which GWT compiles to JavaScript. While Mac users were able to use the GWT compiler in previous versions, they couldn’t use [...]
Zack Rusin is now a qualified reviewer for Qt platform code in WebKit. Although he has not yet submitted many patches to WebKit as such, he has a long history working with KHTML and did much of the Unity porting work originally. As such, he is likely one of the best reviewers for Qt platform [...]
Usually this blog has serious content about WebKit. But one of the great things about the web is that it’s actually lots of fun.
To give you a bit of the flavor of the Safari/WebKit Team’s personality, here are a few of our favorite websites.
Please post some of your favorite websites in the comments.
Apple Stuff
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Apple Developer Connection has posted an article on using nightly builds. Most of this content won’t be news to people who are already using nightlies. But it might be of interest to web developers and application developers who have not tried nightlies yet. There is also some interesting info about canvas changes.