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Archive for October, 2007

CSS Animation

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 at 1:06 am

We have another cool new CSS feature to talk about: animation specified in CSS. There is a lot of ground to cover here, so we’ll start with the basics first.
The simplest kind of animation that we’ve added support for is called a transition. Normally when the value of a CSS property changes, the [...]

This Safari Ad Apparently Has Some Music In It

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

Apple’s new commercial for the iPod touch prominently features Safari - in fact the word “Safari” appears in giant letters. We are bursting with pride for Safari and this historic recognition of its global contributions.
As a special fun bonus, the name of the band that does the song in the ad is CSS.

CSS Transforms

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 12:47 pm

WebKit now has rudimentary support for specifying transforms through CSS. Boxes can be scaled, rotated, skewed and translated. The current nightly builds support affine transformations.
A transform can be specified using the -webkit-transform property. It supports a list of functions, where each single function represents a transform operation to apply. You can [...]

WebKit Does HTML5 Client-side Database Storage

Posted by Brady Eidson on Friday, October 19th, 2007 at 4:04 pm

The current working spec for the HTML5 standard has a lot of exciting features we would eventually like to implement in WebKit. One feature we felt was exciting enough to tackle now even though the spec is still in flux is client-side database storage. So for the last few weeks andersca, xenon, and [...]

Downloadable Fonts

Posted by Dave Hyatt on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at 10:22 pm

WebKit now supports CSS @font-face rules. With font face rules you can specify downloadable custom fonts on your Web pages or alias one font to another. This article on A List Apart describes the feature in detail. All of the examples linked to in that article work in WebKit now.
@font-face is on [...]

Safari Achieves 5.07% Market Share

Posted by Maciej Stachowiak on Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 3:51 am

For the first time, Safari has crossed the 5% threshold in the Net Applications browser market share survey to reach an all time high of 5.07%. Wow! It’s been a long, bumpy ride from the 2.15% share in 2005, when the WebKit Open Source project launched. With Safari 3 coming soon, we can only expect [...]