macenstein.com has an interesting article about a slowdown in other applications when a Safari window with a specific set of pages is loaded in the background. What a browser should do when it is the background application is actually extremely complex, and not all of the decisions are as clear-cut as they might seem.
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It is my pleasure to announce a number of new WebKit reviewers.
General reviewers
Lars Knoll - Lars is the original creator of KHTML, and has been doing a lot of work in the WebKit tree to port it back to Qt, and has also submitted some general refactoring patches and bug fixes. We are pleased to [...]
I just saw this article on Digg about how to “speed up Safari” by reducing the “page load delay” in preferences. In the comments are many testimonials like “Oh my gosh! Safari is so much faster now!” This just goes to prove how inaccurate people’s powers of perception are when it comes to [...]
After many discussions with interested parties and members of the WebKit community, we’ve decided the time has come to get serious about stabilizing the code. We’ve had about two years of development, which has included many awesome compatibility fixes, performance improvements, standards compliance enhancements, and new features. Now is the time to get the source [...]
Congratulations to the Adium team for releasing 1.0! Adium is a multi-protocol messenging client for OSX that uses WebKit for its fancy, stylable message views. Catfish_Man is just one of the talented developers on this awesome app and is also an occasional WebKit contributer. Stop by #webkit on irc.freenode.net to congratulate him, [...]