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over 4 years
ago
by
Dean Jackson
WebKit now supports explicit animations in CSS. As a counterpart to transitions, animations provide a way to declare repeating animated effects, with keyframes, completely in CSS.
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over 4 years
ago
by
Sam Weinig
Gavin Barraclough is now a qualified WebKit Reviewer. Gavin was the driving force behind the initial versions of both SquirrelFish Extreme (our JavaScript JIT) and WREC (our RegExp JIT) and has done a tremendous job of ushering them towards maturity. Please join me in congratulating Gavin.
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
by
Maciej Stachowiak
Tor Arne Vestbø is now a qualified WebKit Reviewer. Tor Arne has done a huge amount of work on the Qt port of WebKit, including advanced work such as a Phonon port of the media back end for the element. He’s also helped to enhance our cross-platform abstraction layer. Please join me in congratulating [...]
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
by
Timothy Hatcher
It has been nine months since our last Web Inspector update and we have a lot of cool things to talk about. If you diligently use the Web Inspector in nightly builds, you might have seen some of these improvements, while other subtle changes might have gone unnoticed.
Some of the Web Inspector improvements were contributed [...] |
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
by
Maciej Stachowiak
Today we would like to announce that WebKit is the first browser engine to fully pass Acid3. A while back, we posted that we scored 100/100 and matched the reference rendering. Now, thanks to recent speedups in JavaScript, DOM and rendering, we have passed the third condition, smooth animation on reference hardware.
Here is a [...] |
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Posted
over 4 years
ago
by
Maciej Stachowiak
Just three months ago, the WebKit team announced SquirrelFish, a major revamp of our JavaScript engine featuring a high-performance bytecode interpreter. Today we’d like to announce the next generation of our JavaScript engine - SquirrelFish
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Posted
almost 5 years
ago
by
Maciej Stachowiak
Cameron Zwarich is now a qualified WebKit Reviewer. Cameron has been doing amazing work on the JavaScript implementation and was one of the core developers on the new bytecode engine. He has also branched out into other areas of the code and squashed bugs of all varieties. Please join me in congratulating Cameron on his [...]
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Posted
almost 5 years
ago
by
ggaren
“Hello, Internet!”
WebKit’s core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish. SquirrelFish is fast—much faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter. Check out the numbers. On the SunSpider JavaScript |
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Posted
almost 5 years
ago
by
Maciej Stachowiak
The latest browser market share data is in, and Safari has hit 6.22%, breaking 6% for the first time. Last month’s share was 5.81%, so this is a significant increase. It was only nine months ago that Safari broke 5%. Safari market share has now almost tripled from 2.14% in June 2005, when the WebKit [...]
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Posted
almost 5 years
ago
by
Adele Peterson
It’s that time of year again! If you are a Mac OS X developer, a browser hacker, a web developer, or just someone with an interest in cool technology, then come have a drink and some snacks, and meet WebKit contributors from Apple and around the world. This event is open to anyone who is [...]
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