Monthly Archives: January 2008

Accelerating WebKit with OpenVG

Posted on January 28, 2008 by alp

After a weekend hack session with Øyvind Kolås, I got WebKit/GTK+‘s Cairo backend rendering straight to OpenGL with Cairo’s new OpenVG backend and ShivaVG: At first the colours were a bit off and performance was nothing to write home about. … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, WebKit | 10 Comments

Advances in Web typography

Posted on January 18, 2008 by alp

If you’re running a WebKit nightly, your browser supports two new ways of specifying custom fonts. CSS2 ‘WebFonts’ With WebFonts you can define custom font faces by passing a URL to the font file: @font-face { font-family: ‘Bitstream Vera Sans’; … Continue reading →

Posted in GNOME, WebKit | 16 Comments

Putting the Web in GTK+

Posted on January 10, 2008 by alp

The word is out. I’ll be coordinating with Epiphany developer Christian Persch to see how the GTK+ team can put Web functionality in or alongside the UI toolkit in the weeks leading up to the GTK+ Berlin hackfest 2008. We’ll … Continue reading →

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