Introducing Safari Technology Preview

Introducing Safari Technology Preview

Starting today, there’s a new, convenient way to see what features and improvements are coming to Safari and other applications that use WebKit.

Read more

New Web Features in Safari 9.1

New Web Features in Safari 9.1

Last week, a new version of Safari shipped with the release of iOS 9.3 and OS X El Capitan 10.11.4.

Read more

Apple style span is gone

Apple style span is gone

This week, I committed WebKit changes r92823 and r93001.

Read more

Ten New Things in WebKit 3

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.

Read more

WebKit in the News

WebKit in the News

Google’s Android announcement (see post below) has led to a new round of stories about WebKit in the blogosphere.

Read more

WebKit Detect script updated for iPhone and iPod touch

WebKit Detect script updated for iPhone and iPod touch

We don’t usually recommend checking for specific user agents; it’s usually better to test for capabilities directly.

Read more

Back to Basics

Back to Basics

I’ve noticed that there’s been a little bit of confusion out there about WebKit.

Read more

WebKit Shutting Down

WebKit Shutting Down

WebKit has always focused on performance, web standards compliance, security, and relatively understandable code.

Read more

The Obligatory iPhone Post

The Obligatory iPhone Post

Yesterday, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, a new combination phone, iPod and internet communications device.

Read more

Optimizing Page Load Time (and a little about the Debug menu)

Optimizing Page Load Time (and a little about the Debug menu)

We don’t usually just repost content from other blogs here.

Read more

Strange Medium

Strange Medium

Digging up a very old blog entry from http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200408/sizing_monospaced_fonts/, the question is asked, “What’s up with the different font sizes when the monospace font family is used?” The answer, as usual with Web browsers, is pretty interesting (which is browser developer-speak for “insanely confusing”).

Read more

The FOUC Problem

The FOUC Problem

FOUC stands for Flash of Unstyled Content.

Read more