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Archive for December, 2006

Introducing Text-Stroke

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Thursday, December 21st, 2006 at 12:10 am

WebKit now supports stroking of text via CSS. In existing Web pages today, the glyphs that are drawn for text are always filled with a single color, specified by the color CSS property. Sometimes authors may want to stroke the edges of the glyphs with one color, and fill with a different color. [...]

George and Lars on KHTML and WebKit

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Wednesday, December 13th, 2006 at 5:46 am

Longtime KDE/KHTML developers Lars Knoll and George Staikos recently gave a presentation on KHTML and WebKit at Yahoo. Here’s a video of their presentation. They cover the early history of KHTML, as well as some of the newer things going on with WebKit and KHTML.
One point they mention a number of times is that many [...]

The same thing we do every night, Pinky

Posted by Adam Roben on Sunday, December 3rd, 2006 at 12:12 am

Word on the tubes is that Safari’s market share has topped 4 percent, indicating a 45 percent year-over-year increase. WebKit ftw!