http://webkit.org/blog All about WebKit development Thu, 08 May 2008 17:58:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Security is a top priority for the WebKit project. As contributors to the project have grown, it has become apparent that we need a process for safely reporting security vulnerabilities to the WebKit project in addition to the process for reporting vulnerabilities to Apple. Today, we are announcing ... http://webkit.org/blog/184/reporting-webkit-security-bugs/ WebKit now supports reflections in CSS. Continuing the trend of using adorable baby photos to make features appear more impressive, let me introduce Kate again. :) A reflection is a replica of the original object with its own specific transform and mask. The box-reflect property can be used to ... http://webkit.org/blog/182/css-reflections/ WebKit now supports alpha masks in CSS. Masks allow you to overlay the content of a box with a pattern that can be used to knock out portions of that box in the final display. In other words, you can clip to complex shapes based off the alpha ... http://webkit.org/blog/181/css-masks/ Google has released the list of students they will be sponsoring to work on WebKit as part of the Google Summer of Code this year. Congratulations to all of the students. We look forward to working with you closely this summer! Thank you again to all the great students ... http://webkit.org/blog/178/webkit-gsoc-students-announced/ Currently the set of images you can use from CSS consists of the following: Bitmap Images (PNG, GIF, JPG) SVG Images Gradients A notable missing ability when compared with explicit DOM content is programmatic drawing into CSS images. The <canvas> element represents a foreground bitmap image that can be drawn into programmatically, but ... http://webkit.org/blog/176/css-canvas-drawing/ WebKit now supports gradients specified in CSS. There are two types of gradients: linear gradients and radial gradients. The syntax is as follows: -webkit-gradient(<type>, <point> [, <radius>]?, <point> [, <radius>]? [, <stop>]*) The type of a gradient is either linear or radial. A point is a pair of space-separated values. The syntax ... http://webkit.org/blog/175/introducing-css-gradients/ In our earlier Acid3 post, I mentioned that the final test we passed, test 79, was super tough. This test covered many details of SVG text layout and font support. To pass it, we had to fix many bugs. Unless you are a hardocore standards geek you may not find ... http://webkit.org/blog/174/scenes-from-an-acid-test/ UPDATE We now believe we have a full rendering pass (but not necessarily an animation smoothness pass yet). See the bottom of the post for details. UPDATE The Windows nightly is now available for download. See below for details. With r31342 WebKit has become the first publicly available rendering engine to ... http://webkit.org/blog/173/webkit-achieves-acid3-100100-in-public-build/ In r31334 we enabled the SVG Animation support that has already been in the engine for a while but has not been enabled by default so far. We also implemented support for the beginElement() and endElement() methods. As a result we now pass the Acid3 test 76. SVG Animation is a ... http://webkit.org/blog/172/enabling-svg-animation-acid3-99100/ We fixed our XML processing in r31316 to stop auto-recovering from invalid byte sequences and instead treat invalid bytes as fatal errors, as required by XML 1.0. To quote the spec: It is a fatal error if an XML entity is determined (via default, encoding declaration, or higher-level protocol) to ... http://webkit.org/blog/170/webkit-hits-98100-on-acid3/