Recently we’ve been working to finish off and land the last couple of fixes to get a perfect pixel-for-pixel match against the reference Acid3 rendering in WebKit/GTK+. I believe we’re the first project to achieve this on Linux — congratulations to everyone on the team! Epiphany using WebKit r32284 We also recently announced our plans [...]
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Summer of Code projects for browser hackers
With the revised deadline for Google Summer of Code ’08 student applications looming, we’ve been getting a lot of interest in browser-related student projects. I’ve put together a list of some of my favourite ideas. GNOME ideas Epiphany Desktop integration Bookmark and history integration JavaScript debugger based on Drosera / Web Inspector Evolution Bug tracking [...]
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WebKit gets 100% on Acid3
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 [...]
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Bossa Conf ’08
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 [...]
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Back from the GTK+ Berlin Hackfest 2008
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 [...]
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Developing hybrid Web GTK+ applications
I’ve put up the slides from my FOSDEM ’08 talk on developing Web/GTK+ rich internet applications with WebKit and deploying them on the desktop and on mobile devices. If you were simply too hung over from the night before to get to the morning session or couldn’t make FOSDEM, be sure to check it out. [...]
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GTK+ WebKit session at FOSDEM 2008
If you’re attending FOSDEM (Brussels) next weekend, come along to my GNOME devroom talk on Web integration: “WebKit/GTK+ is a brand new port of the WebKit content engine providing standards compliance, high performance and seamless integration with the GTK+ stack. I’ll be demonstrating some of the latest features and taking a look at the ways [...]
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Accelerating WebKit with OpenVG
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. But Øyvind promptly pushed a fix and cooked up a patch to prevent static images [...]
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Advances in Web typography
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’; src: url(’http://www.freedesktop.org/~alp/tmp/Vera.ttf’) format(truetype); } h1 { font-family: ‘Bitstream Vera Sans’, sans-serif; } The font [...]
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Putting the Web in GTK+
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 be studying existing toolkits featuring Web widgets and considering what changes might be necessary to [...]
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