Introducing Text-Stroke

Introducing Text-Stroke

WebKit now supports stroking of text via CSS.

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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.

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Color Spaces

Color Spaces

I was pointed to this article about color spaces in Web browsers.

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Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML

Understanding HTML, XML and XHTML

OR, Close your <script> and <canvas> tags!

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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”).

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The FOUC Problem

The FOUC Problem

FOUC stands for Flash of Unstyled Content.

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Recent WebKit Features

Recent WebKit Features

There have been a lot of exciting new engine-level features that have been added to WebKit over the last few months, and not all of them have received their own blog entries.

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Introducing Drosera

Introducing Drosera

I would like to introduce a new addition to the WebKit open source tools—a JavaScript debugger.

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CSS Units

CSS Units

I figured I’d take another stab at educating people about CSS units.

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High DPI Websites (Part 2)

High DPI Websites (Part 2)

In reading responses to my initial post I noticed a bit of confusion regarding the proposal.

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High DPI Websites (Part 1)

High DPI Websites (Part 1)

One area of Web design that is going to become more important in the coming years is high DPI.

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Text Fields

Text Fields

We have recently switched over to use an engine-based implementation for <input type=text>.  In doing so, our text fields are now able to use many useful css capabilities that weren’t available before.  border-radius, border-image, and background-image are just a few that will now work with our text fields.

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