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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+...
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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:...
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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...
View ArticleGTK+ 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,...
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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...
View ArticleBack 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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleWebKit Summer of Code Projects
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...
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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...
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