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Today we reached a milestone with WebKit/GTK+ as it became the first browser engine on Linux/X11 to get a full score on Acid3, shortly after the Acid3 pass by WebKit for Safari/Mac.

Epiphany using WebKit r31371

There is actually still a little work to be done before we can claim a flawless Acid3 pass. Two of the most visible remaining issues in the GTK+ port are :visited (causing the “LINKTEST FAILED” notice in the screenshot) and the lack of CSS text shadow support in the Cairo/text backend which is needed to match the reference rendering.

It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come in the last few months, and great to see the WebKit GTK+ team now playing an active role in the direction of WebCore as WebKit continues to build momentum amongst developers.

Update: We now also match the reference rendering.

Am here in the LHR lounge. In a couple of hours, we take off for the INdT Bossa Conference, Pernambuco, Brazil via Lisbon. Bumped in to Pippin who will be presenting Clutter. Also looking forward to Lennart’s PulseAudio talk amongst others.

If you happen to be going, drop by on my WebKit Mobile presentation, 14:00 Room 01 this Monday. We have a small surprise waiting for Maemo developers.

There was an incredible amount of productive hacking and discussion at the hackfest, covering the lower parts of the stack like Cairo and Pango as well as the GTK+ core and related work like toolkit web integration.

Until I get round to writing things up, I refer you to Emmannuele’s posts. He summarises some of the graphics topics that came up and I would echo his sentiments about what a well organised, fun and dynamic event this was.