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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CSS3 Multi-Column Support

CSS3 Multi-Column Support

WebKit now has some very basic support for multiple columns from CSS3.

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The Obligatory iPhone Post

The Obligatory iPhone Post

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

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Box Shadow

Box Shadow

WebKit now supports the CSS3 box-shadow property (as -webkit-box-shadow).

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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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