getElementsByClassName is one of the more common functions requested by JavaScript programmers (and added by JavaScript libraries); it works along the same lines as getElementsByTagName and getElementById in looking up elements of a web page by their properties. In fact, it’s so common that in the new in-progress HTML5 specification it’s been added to the [...]
A New JavaScript Benchmark From the WebKit Team
Here in WebKit-land, we strive for great performance and we love to make things faster. When doing performance work, it’s critical to be able to measure how fast you are at any given time and track changes. And it’s important to make sure your metric reflects realistic use [...]
I’m happy to announce that Holger Freyther is now a WebKit reviewer. Since arriving on the WebKit scene in early ‘07 he has proven himself to be a consistently solid contributer. After valuable work cleaning up the GTK+/Qt build systems and the GTK+ public API he continues to help fill in other missing [...]
As Maciej said, web developer tools are a big new feature of WebKit 3. Since we first introduced the new Web Inspector back in June, Tim Hatcher (xenon in #webkit) has been spearheading the effort to make the Web Inspector an even better tool for web developers, and I wanted to give an update on [...]
Surfin’ Safari has always been a great place to get information about WebKit, from descriptions of the many new features being added to technical discussions of engine internals to announcements of WebKit being used in entirely new places. But the web is a big place, and we want to make it easier to find the [...]