http://webkit.org/blog All about WebKit development Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:23:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A number of exciting new features have been added to the Web Inspector since our last update. Today we would like to highlight some of those features! This post is also available in Japanese (日本語), thanks to Keishi Hattori (服部慶士). If you would like to play with most of these features ... http://webkit.org/blog/829/web-inspector-updates/ Introduction WebGL is a new standard being worked on in the Khronos consortium. The work done in Khronos is only available to its members, so I can't show you the spec just yet. But it will become public within the next few months after a review by Khronos members. The good ... http://webkit.org/blog/603/webgl-now-available-in-webkit-nightlies/ Pavel has contributed some great new features for the Web Inspector and spent a lot of time on the Web Inspector to help unfork the Chromium port. Dmitry has worked on timers, workers, test improvements, and various other enhancements. Please join me in congratulating Pavel and Dmitry on their reviewer ... http://webkit.org/blog/793/pavel-feldman-and-dmitry-titov-are-now-webkit-reviewers/ Previously I touched on what exactly the Page Cache does and outlined some of the improvements we're working on. This post is geared towards web developers and is therefore even more technical than the last. In this article I'd like to talk more about unload event handlers, why they prevent pages from ... http://webkit.org/blog/516/webkit-page-cache-ii-the-unload-event/ This is the first of two posts that will center around a modern browser engine feature that doesn't usually get a lot of press: The Page Cache. Today I'll talk a bit about what this feature is, why it often doesn't work, and what plans we have to improve it. Page Cache ... http://webkit.org/blog/427/webkit-page-cache-i-the-basics/ Eric Carlson has been a long-time contributer to WebKit, first through the QuickTime Plugin, and now directly as part of WebKit's HTML5 media support. Eric knows a ridiculous amount about video and audio and we're very glad to have him now as an official reviewer! Please join me ... http://webkit.org/blog/426/eric-carlson-is-now-a-webkit-reviewer/ WebKit on Mac OS X now has support for CSS 3D transforms, which allow you to position elements on the page in three-dimensional space using CSS. This is a natural extension of 2D transforms, which we described in an earlier blog post. 3D transforms have been supported on iPhone since ... http://webkit.org/blog/386/3d-transforms/ Adam has been a long-time contributer of security fixes. Dave comes to us through the Chromium porting effort and has done quite a bit of work on HTML5 Workers as well. Please join me in congratulating Adam and Dave on their reviewer status! http://webkit.org/blog/379/adam-barth-and-dave-levin-are-now-webkit-reviewers/ Jan has been around for a very long time now, and has contributed lots of patches to the GTK+ port of WebKit. He's worked tirelessly on the build system, and on keeping the port compilable. He has also done important work on the testing infra-structure, and contributed sizable chunks of ... http://webkit.org/blog/377/jan-michael-alonzo-is-now-a-webkit-reviewer/ Over the last six months, Xan Lopez and Gustavo Noronha have been working tirelessly on the GTK+ port of WebKit. They've contributed over 150 improvements to WebKit in the form of bug fixes and API improvements, and have played important roles in driving the development of the GTK+ port ... http://webkit.org/blog/375/xan-lopez-and-gustavo-noronha-are-now-webkit-reviewers/