State of Web Inspector
Last year, Safari 6 included a reimagination of Web Inspector that aligned the design and user experience with Xcode 4.
Announcing SunSpider 1.0
The popular SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite was originally released by the WebKit team over five years ago, in December 2007.
On spinlocks and sleep()
Yes, we really did achieve a 3.7X speedup on a garbage collection benchmark by removing a call to sleep().
CSS3 Gradients
Introduction WebKit paved the way for gradients in CSS by adding support for -webkit-gradient back in early 2008, and they’ve become widely used since their introduction.
Announcing…MathML!
If you’ve been following check-ins for the last year or so, then you already know that some dedicated contributors have been working on a MathML implementation in WebKit.
A Guide to Assertion Macros in WebKit
Background WebKit provides a number of macros to assert that conditions in the code are met.
Announcing SunSpider 0.9.1
Today we’d like to announce SunSpider 0.9.1, a new version of the popular SunSpider JavaScript benchmark that improves accuracy of results.
Web Inspector Updates
A number of exciting new features have been added to the Web Inspector since our last update.
WebKit Page Cache II – The unload Event
Previously I touched on what exactly the Page Cache does and outlined some of the improvements we’re working on.
WebKit Page Cache I – The Basics
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.
3D Transforms
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.