New Open Committer and Reviewer Policy

New Open Committer and Reviewer Policy

Historically, new WebKit committers and reviewers have been chosen through an internal Apple process.

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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.

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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.

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HTML5 Media Support

HTML5 Media Support

Another nice feature from the HTML5 draft specification is now available in the WebKit nightly builds for Mac OS X.

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CSS Animation

CSS Animation

We have another cool new CSS feature to talk about: animation specified in CSS.

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CSS Transforms

CSS Transforms

WebKit now has rudimentary support for specifying transforms through CSS.

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WebKit Does HTML5 Client-side Database Storage

WebKit Does HTML5 Client-side Database Storage

The current working spec for the HTML5 standard has a lot of exciting features we would eventually like to implement in WebKit.

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Downloadable Fonts

Downloadable Fonts

WebKit now supports CSS @font-face rules.

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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.

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WebCore Rendering V – Floats

WebCore Rendering V – Floats

A float is a renderer that is designed to shift all the way to the left side or all the way to the right side of a paragraph.

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WebCore Rendering IV – Absolute/Fixed and Relative Positioning

WebCore Rendering IV – Absolute/Fixed and Relative Positioning

The position property in CSS can be used to position an object relative to a specific containing block.

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WebCore Rendering III – Layout Basics

WebCore Rendering III – Layout Basics

When renderers are first created and added to the tree, they have no position or size yet.

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