Jay Robinson

Tag: webkit

  • Safari Web Inspector versus WebKit Web Inspector (pictured above) The latest Safari 5.2 Update 3 (available to registered Safari developers) includes a Safari-specific Web Inspector enabled by default. You now have two web inspector’s to choose from: Safari’s, or WebKit’s. You can use the Develop menu to switch between the two. Overall, there’s more consistency…

  • Check out this post I contributed to WebKitBits: -webkit-filter is the new hotness, and it’s coming to your browser sooner than you’d expect! This slide comes from a recent presentation given by Vincent Hardy of Adobe, showing off the rapid innovation in tweaking web graphics. Download the latest WebKit Nightly and take a look!

  • We have browser specific code for Android 2.2, 2.3, and 4. We have code just for the Kindle Fire and code just for the Blackberry Torch. Our list scroller implementation for Android Gingerbread is based on scroll position animation and our list scroller for Android 4 is based on CSS transforms. This attention to detail,…

  • WebKit2’s type renderer is hugely improved. (No need to use -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; ever again!) Dustin Curtis (Via WebKitBits)

  • List of CSS Cursors for WebKit

    List of CSS Cursors for WebKitNeed this every now and then. Thought I had archived it here but I guess not…

  • BlackBerry PlayBook, new 7″ tablet from RIM. Dual core, dual cameras. USB, HDMI for 1080p out. HTML5 video and Flash. Let the tablet games begin! The interactions in this look great, and for once not overly ripping off Apple.

  • Sencha: Resolution Independent Mobile UI » David Kaneda explains a technique to create a scalable, resolution independent user interface in our latest Sencha Blog post. A similar technique was used for Sencha Touch.

  • WebKitBits, via Sencha: Excitement has been building for some time for a BlackBerry device with a modern WebKit browser. Michael Mullany puts the brand new BlackBerry Torch through the paces, from the point of view of a web developer, to see what it can handle. The results? Pretty impressive… Check out his article on the…

  • If IE9 launches without CSS3 transitions in early 2011, it will be the only browser out of Opera, Firefox, Webkit that doesn’t support them. Zachary Johnson

  • Browser makers like Microsoft and Mozilla should swallow their pride, take the unique features they’ve each brought to their respective browsers, and start figuring out how to develop them on top of WebKit — it’s the quickest way for web development to move forward as a whole. Dear Microsoft, Please Use WebKit by David Kaneda.

  • The WebKit Reality

    The WebKit Reality David Kaneda: “[I]f you can quickly develop an amazing experience tailored for mobile WebKit, why shouldn’t you? In addition to providing an immensely better interface for over 90% of your users, you’re learning the skills of tomorrow’s smartphones and tablets.”

  • How screwed would we be if the WebKit team weren’t so god damn competent? Joe Hewitt, April 2010 (via @endofnative)

  • Multi-Safari

    Multi-SafariSafari 5 is my new favorite browser, but I was a little hesitant to upgrade until I’d figured out how I could keep Safari 4. The Multi-Safari project solves that handily. The Multi-Safari website allows you to download all the previous versions of Safari back to 1.0. Every version is specially packaged to use the…

  • A beautiful card game of Memory created using WebKit animations.

  • Our Solar System, an experiment with CSS3 border-radius, -webkit transforms & animations. Be sure to check out the article for Internet Explorer’s parallel flat universe. Via Jay Robinson for WebKitBits.