Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme
Just three months ago, the WebKit team announced SquirrelFish, a major revamp of our JavaScript engine featuring a high-performance bytecode interpreter.
Safari Hits 6.25% Market Share
The latest browser market share data is in, and Safari has hit 6.25%, breaking 6% for the first time.
Scenes from an Acid Test
In our earlier Acid3 post, I mentioned that the final test we passed, test 79, was super tough.
WebKit achieves Acid3 100/100 in public build
UPDATE We now believe we have a full rendering pass (but not necessarily an animation smoothness pass yet).
Acid3 Range Exception Test Fixed – WebKit hits 92/100
I’ve fixed Acid3 test 11, a test case of exception codes from Range.surroundContents.
Versioning, Compatibility and Standards
The new IE8 version targeting switch, announced on IEBlog and A List Apart, has been the talk of the web.
Announcing SunSpider 0.9
A New JavaScript Benchmark From the WebKit Team Here in WebKit-land, we strive for great performance and we love to make things faster.
New Open Committer and Reviewer Policy
Historically, new WebKit committers and reviewers have been chosen through an internal Apple process.
Ten New Things in WebKit 3
Lately we’ve been talking about a lot of great new features in the latest development trunk of WebKit – features like web fonts, client-side database storage, CSS transforms and CSS animation.
WebKit in the News
Google’s Android announcement (see post below) has led to a new round of stories about WebKit in the blogosphere.
New WebKit Reviewers
I’m pleased to announce that Simon Hausmann is now a WebKit reviewer.