Webkit Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

CSS Animation to replace need for Flash in MobileSafari? Not likely

by Robert Palmer (Feb 6th, 2009)

New nightly builds of Safari's bleeding-edge doppelgänger, WebKit, are getting some new support for CSS animations -- support that's already available in MobileSafari. The animations, which include a falling leaves effect, a way to simply animate objects sliding across the screen, and a ...

Farewell, iPhone-optimized iGoogle

by Michael Rose (Jan 19th, 2009)

One shining year -- that's how long the iPhone-optimized iGoogle search page hung around, and now we must tell it goodbye. Introduced in January 2008, the customized iGoogle UI for Mobile Safari provided a single-column view and easier navigation for iPhone users. As Christina noted earlier today ...

Third-party apps enhance web browsing for iPhone, iPod touch

by Dave Caolo (Jan 14th, 2009)

Earlier this week, there was a sudden influx of web browsing applications in the App Store. Mac Rumors points out that some of them, most notably Edge Browser [App Store link], have very old release dates even though they only showed up in the store recently (Edge Browser's release date is listed as ...

WebKit adds some Sparkle

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 13th, 2009)

Sparkle, Andy Matuschak's software update framework for Cocoa applications, is no stranger to TUAW. Now, it's found its way into WebKit, the developmental version of Safari. This feature, often requested on the WebKit mailing lists, allows WebKit to update itself with the click of a button. Sparkle ...

Screaming fast Mozilla browser Minefield gives a glimpse of Firefox's future

by Jason Clarke (Oct 26th, 2008)

I was really disappointed when Google released their Chrome web browser for Windows only. When it comes to browsers, I've tried them all. Right now I regularly switch between Firefox and the latest nightly build from Webkit (essentially Safari). Firefox has the extensibility I rely on, while Webkit ...

OmniWeb 5.8 released

by Robert Palmer (Sep 29th, 2008)

The Omni Group has released version 5.8 of OmniWeb, its venerable browser software. OmniWeb 5.8 is now based on the same version of Webkit as Safari 3.1.x. It also fixes bugs with Spaces, and adds support for non-POSIX file URLs. Users can also choose Google Chrome in the list of user-agent ...

Gears comes to Safari

by Christina Warren (Sep 15th, 2008)

Even though Google Chrome is still only available for Windows, its WebKit roots mean that Safari for Mac users might still get some extra perks. Gears, Google's web API that lets developers create applications that can run offline, is one of those perks. Previously, Gears was only available for ...

Chrome features are coming to WebKit

by Christina Warren (Sep 8th, 2008)

Although Google's Chrome browser is currently only available to Windows users (unless you are running an Intel-based Mac and VMWare Fusion or Parallels), its WebKit underpinnings mean that Safari, and other WebKit-based browsers, can benefit from Google's code. One of the larger innovations of ...

Google creating its own browser based on WebKit

by Robert Palmer (Sep 1st, 2008)

Google is developing a new web browser built from the ground up and based on WebKit, the same rendering engine that Safari uses. The browser, called Chrome, is open-source software built with security, compatibility and speed in mind. Each tab in the browser will be its own separate running ...

Apple seeds developers with Safari 4.0

by Cory Bohon (Jun 10th, 2008)

Apple has seeded developers with a copy of the new Safari 4, which adds some new features and is based on a newer version of WebKit. Apple is also rumored to be using the SquirrelFish JavaScript engine which allows for faster Javascript processing. New to this version of Safari is the ability to ...

Flickr Find: WebKit references Mac OS X 10.6

by Robert Palmer (Jun 3rd, 2008)

WebKit, the open source foundation that many Mac apps use to draw HTML, seems to be preparing for some kind of operating system update in the near future. Intrepid Flickr user factoryjoe posted an image of a screenshot showing a recent WebKit nightly build. In the Frameworks folder inside the ...

Safari 3 allows styled form controls

by Robert Palmer (May 8th, 2008)

This was included in WebKit builds beginning several years ago, apparently, but is something I recently stumbled upon. Historically, Safari has been pretty insistent on making sure web page form fields (like drop-down menus and buttons) retain the Aqua look-and-feel. Web designers, on the other ...

Webkit gets a perfect 100 on Acid3

by Michael Rose (Mar 27th, 2008)

In the rather rarefied atmosphere of web standards compliance, the Acid3 suite of browser tests is like a pro wrestler's chair to the back of the head: if you can take it and keep standing, that's very impressive. The Acid3 suite, first released at the beginning of this month, pushes browsers to ...

SunSpider 0.9

by Scott McNulty (Dec 19th, 2007)

If there is one thing geeks like to do it is benchmark things. From how fast their code runs, to how quickly their Mac renders video, the geek has an insatiable need for metrics. The geeks behind the WebKit project (that's the open source HTML rendering engine that powers Safari) wanted to measure ...

iPhone Web Development book debuts

by Erica Sadun (Nov 2nd, 2007)

August Trometer's new PDF book, Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Safari" just debuted. I am not much of a web designer myself but I may cough up the ten bucks to pick up a copy of this ebook. Topics according to the web page include Mobile Safari detection, Webkit-specific CSS attributes, and how ...