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Archive for January, 2007

Zack on WebKit Qt API

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 at 6:37 pm

Recently Zack Rusin posted about the first version of a Qt/KDE API for WebKit, plus some cool screenshots of neat things you can do with it.
Two days ago Lars and I sat down and did the initial implementation of classes which will represent the public API for the Qt/KDE version of WebKit. In KHTML almost [...]

HTML Standards Process Returning from the Grave

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 at 9:57 pm

For a long time, the HTML standards process has been moribund; the W3C’s HTML Working Group has focused almost exclusively on XHTML2, a new standard that was highly incompatible with existing practice. The people working on the major browsers have largely abandoned the HTML Working Group. And competing efforts like WHATWG stepped in to fill [...]

CSS3 Multi-Column Support

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Friday, January 12th, 2007 at 4:53 pm

WebKit now has some very basic support for multiple columns from CSS3. In fact, if you’re reading this blog entry, you will see that it has been broken up into two columns in the latest WebKit nightly and in Firefox.
The properties supported at this time are columns, column-gap, column-count and column-width. Column rules [...]

The Obligatory iPhone Post

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 at 3:24 pm

Yesterday, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, a new combination phone, iPod and internet communications device. The iPhone version of Safari is, no surprise, based on a version of WebKit. WebKit is also used for the iPhone’s rich HTML mail capabilities. I’d like to congratulate everyone on the iPhone browser team, and also everyone who has [...]

Box Shadow

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Sunday, January 7th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

WebKit now supports the CSS3 box-shadow property (as -webkit-box-shadow). This property allows you to specify a shadow effect that will be applied to the border box of an object. The syntax of the shadow is identical to text-shadow.
Some fun facts about the feature:
(1) It works with table cells, so you can make [...]