WebKit

In a few weeks, they had a simple application running WebKit on Windows that kept going even when a Web page crashed a tab.

Although its general page load performance lags a bit behind WebKit-based mobile browsers, it has a very fast JavaScript engine.

The front-end web page uses the location services supported by webkit browsers to get the GPS coordinates of the user.

Thus far, we have seen WebKit render a normal Web page quite well, albeit a bit small and hard to read without some zooming.

The rest of the mobile marketplace has taken notice and is using WebKit, contemplating it, or making excuses.

Still, embracing WebKit as the foundation for future versions of IE would be welcomed by many a developer.

There, Apple and Google have two excellent WebKit-based mobile browsers. Microsoft has got less than nothing.

On many WebKit implementations, these transitions are hardware-accelerated, which provides a naturalistic application-like feel.

The two projects share code that implements WebKit's porting API in terms of Skia.

For more information on setting up the WebView control, examine the documentation for the android. webkit package online (see Resources).

JavaScript is one component of browser performance, and Webkit Sunspider is one measure of script performance.

debugging. Note that CrossFire and WebKit's new protocol offer support for the whole range of web debugging features, ie.

And since all of these devices support HTML5 and the WebKit framework, building portable web-based apps became easier still.

Write add-ons for the major free browsers (Mozilla, Webkit, . . . ) that implement the Stallman's solution.

With Webkit, Pyjamas becomes a cross-browser and cross-platform set of GUI widgets.

In most cases, both Webkit browsers and Mozilla Firefox based browsers have implemented these features.

A PhoneGap project can leverage *all* the HTML5 apis that are implemented in WebKit but, as always, this comes with some caveats.

A red and black background is placed behind the text by setting the background style -webkit-gradient.

Mozilla clearly has the resources, developer expertise, and community support to take Gecko anywhere that WebKit can go.

WebKit is also finding its way into other mobile settings, though we'll keep our discussion to just the iPhone and Android platforms.

A web component that uses WebKit to render HTML, with hardware accelerated rendering using Prism.

The developers at WebKit were very quick to announce that they have started implementing the storage portions of the HTML5 spec also.

You can expect that many of the input types will allow for more useful visual representations as Webkit continues to rapidly evolve.

The IDE, codenamed Edge, uses the WebKit rendering engine to preview animations and like Dreamweaver, offers a source code editing mode.

Opera begins to struggle, as WebKit becomes the rendering engine of choice on mobile devices.

Google, however, is using an older version of WebKit as the basis for Chrome.

Note Firefox and Webkit has different property names for the corners.

By making its WebKit technology open, Apple has set the standard for mobile web browsers.

WebKit, XUL, and their ilk bring modern flair to desktop applications.

Almost every smartphone web browser other than Microsoft's uses WebKit.

You apply a reflection to the heading by setting the -webkit-box-reflect style.

Meanwhile, WebKit is taking the lead when it comes to browsers on many of today's hottest smartphone platforms.

Nokia has a prototype for Firefox while Samsung has one for WebKit browsers.

The current working spec for the HTML5 standard has a lot of exciting features we would eventually like to implement in WebKit.

For mobile tests the page is loaded by a WebKit renderer.

The WebKit project has brought to life the modern Web application for mobile devices.

You can develop widgets that will run anywhere WebKit and XUL run.

To rotate the div, you set its -webkit-transform style to rotateZ(-5deg), thus rotating it five degrees counterclockwise.

WebKit is used in several browsers, most noticeably OmniWeb.

Google uses it for Android's browser, Palm uses it, Nokia uses it, and RIM (Blackberry) has announced they will use it too.

You can also found feature available only to the nightly build of WebKit.

This is the first example you'll see of CSS features that are prefixed with -webkit.

Visit WebKit to learn more about the open source project and available WebKit browsers for many platforms.

In Titanium 0. 8, WebKit's WebView wasused as the core around which things like GPS, UI, Camera, and Data were mappedto the OS.

For our purposes, we will focus more on what WebKit can do, rather than what it cannot.

Apple has embraced Webkit and we may look at that, but we will continue to build extensions for IE 8.

To debug your application in Safari, we recommend using a WebKit build. The build includes

Con: doesn't support WebKit-based browsers (like Safari)

Integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine