With the release of the WebKit-based Chrome browser, Google also introduced a handful of new backends for the browser engine including a new HTTP stack and the Skia graphics library. Google’s Android WebKit code drops have previously featured Skia for rendering, though this is the first time the sources have been made freely available. The [...]
Category Archives: WebKit
WebKit Meta: A new standard for in-game web content
Over the last few months, our browser team at Nuanti Ltd. has been developing Meta, a brand new WebKit port suited to embedding in OpenGL and 3D applications. The work is being driven by Linden Lab, who are eagerly investigating WebKit for use in Second Life. While producing Meta we’ve paid great attention to resolving [...]
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Acid3 final touches
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 [...]
Also posted in GNOME, Mono 3 Comments
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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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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WebKit for Windows gets Cairo support
Brent Fulgham, whose work I’ve already mentioned now has the WebKit/Cairo Windows port up and running. This is the “native Windows port” a lot of people have been waiting for (though it’s technically no more or less native than Safari’s WebKit). The taxonomy of the new port places it very close to Apple’s WebKit for [...]
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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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