![WebKit HTML5 canvas enhancements, Acid2 support and more](http://www.atoker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/webkitcairocanvasshad.png)
WebKit HTML5 canvas enhancements, Acid2 support and more
Improved WebKit HTML5 canvas support Brent Fulgham has been merging Cairo graphics backend features from the Adobe Apollo/AIR branch of WebKit (#16558, #16577, #15382). The Adobe developers have been cooperative and their code is well-written — hopefully they’ll start merging…
![WebKit HTML5 video support with GStreamer](http://www.atoker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/webkitvideo.png)
WebKit HTML5 video support with GStreamer
What do you get when you take WebKit/GTK+, add GStreamer and finish off with a sprinkling of code from Clutter? I’ve been working together with Pierre-Luc Beaudoin on a GStreamer-based media backend for WebKit. Last week, we landed this work…
WebKit/GTK+ API design
In the last month, we’ve started to look more seriously at the WebKit public API and how it fits with GLib/GTK+ principles. Some of the fixes have been obvious: #16174: Use “URI” not “URL” in public API #15691: The main…
![Welcoming Google to the WebKit project](http://www.atoker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/fork_sm.png)
Welcoming Google to the WebKit project
In my talk at LCE 2007, I touched on the issue of proprietary branches and their effect on developer morale. On the WebKit/GTK+ team, we’ve had to deal with this issue a few times. A year ago, Adobe promised great…
![GTK+ Matters](http://www.atoker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/webkitgtknative.png)
GTK+ Matters
A friend pointed out a slightly confused post by a Mozilla developer regarding WebKit/GTK+. I don’t really care much for browser wars, but since this post touches on so many aspects of the browser that I’m working on, like Cairo…
![A good week for text and graphics](http://www.atoker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/webkitpango.png)
A good week for text and graphics
glyph-pixmaps Carl‘s glyph-pixmaps work has been merged to xserver. This provides a speedup for text rendering by hashing and caching glyph data to avoid constant re-uploads. Eric Anholt breaks it down for us. Cairo and XShm Shared memory has had…
![WebKit/Gtk+ gets a reviewer, and Canvas support](http://www.atoker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/webkitgtkcanvas.png)
WebKit/Gtk+ gets a reviewer, and Canvas support
WebKit/Gtk+ gets a reviewer I am now an official WebKit reviewer. This should help speed up development of the Gtk+ port. Thanks go to Apple and the WebKit team! Canvas support using Cairo A few hours ago I landed support…
![All good things](http://www.atoker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/logo_trans.jpg)
All good things
Just about two years ago when I was living in Edinburgh, university researcher Harry Halpin and I set up a space in the basement of an old church/the Forest Cafe with the goals of promoting and supporting Free Software and…
![WebKit/Gtk+ at LinuxConf Europe 2007](http://www.atoker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/webkit-gtk-1.png)
WebKit/Gtk+ at LinuxConf Europe 2007
Yesterday’s talk on WebKit/Gtk+ at LinuxConf Europe was well received, and I was particularly impressed by the turnout considering that it was scheduled against Linus’ git BOF next door. The audience had more questions than there was time for, but…
![WebKit Maemo port, N800 and the EAL](http://www.atoker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/webkit6.png)
WebKit Maemo port, N800 and the EAL
I’ve been working with George Wright the last few days to integrate the WebKit/Gtk+ browser engine into Nokia’s recently announced EAL (Engine Abstraction Layer). WebKit/Gtk+ will soon be joining Opera and Mozilla as a well-supported alternative browser for the Maemo…
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