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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WebCore Rendering II – Blocks and Inlines

WebCore Rendering II – Blocks and Inlines

In the previous entry I talked about the basic structure of a CSS box.

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WebCore Rendering I – The Basics

WebCore Rendering I – The Basics

This is the first of a series of posts designed to help people interested in hacking on WebCore’s rendering system.

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Yet Another One More Thing… New Web Inspector!

Yet Another One More Thing… New Web Inspector!

As some of you saw last week at WWDC, we have a brand new version of the Web Inspector.

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Back to Basics

Back to Basics

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

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WebKit Shutting Down

WebKit Shutting Down

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

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Apple Joins HTML Working Group, You Can Too

Apple Joins HTML Working Group, You Can Too

Recently, the W3 Consortium announced a renewed HTML Working Group effort.

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Background Music

Background Music

macenstein.com has an interesting article about a slowdown in other applications when a Safari window with a specific set of pages is loaded in the background.

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HTML Standards Process Returning from the Grave

HTML Standards Process Returning from the Grave

For a long time, the HTML standards process has been moribund; the W3C‘s HTML Working Group has focused almost exclusively on XHTML2, a new standard that was highly incompatible with existing practice.

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