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WebKit Scores 100 on the Acid3 Test

In WebKit on 27 March 2008 with no comments

They did it!
The Opera team also achieved 100 earlier today but WebKit is claiming the prize of first publicly available rendering engine to ace this very difficult test:
“The final test, test 79, was a brutal torture test of SVG text rendering.”

Firefox, WebKit, and Coalesced Updates

In WebKit on 21 March 2008 with no comments

As a Mac programmer it’s interesting to read this investigation as to why Firefox 2 didn’t suffer from the same frame rate cap that was being seen in Firefox 3:
“The reason why Firefox 2 wasn’t affected was that Fx2 was not a Cocoa app; it is a Carbon app, and as such was exempt from [...]

Icon Finder

In Graphic Design, WebKit on 28 August 2007 with no comments

Unless you are a graphic designer, finding icons for your Micro ISV web page and blog can be a problem. Although I strongly encourage you to hire a good graphic designer for most of your original graphic needs, sometimes a simple RSS feed or email icon is all you need.
Enter IconFinder…. Google for icons.

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Measuring Web Page Load Times with WebKit Inspector

In Screencast, WebKit on 26 August 2007 with 2 comments

While investigating ways to make this page load faster, I made a screencast show how you can use WebKit Inspector to measure the load times of your page. Click the image below to watch it.

As Webkit Inspector suggested, I discovered that you can make Apache compress the html, xml, and css files before returning [...]