WebKit now includes support for gradients specified in CSS. The syntax looks a bit confusing for us designerly types, but massive kudos to the WebKit team for continuing to embrace the “browser wars” mentality, offering exciting new toys for designers and developers to play with, while at the same time maintaing interoperability with other browsers. Now, if we could just get Opera, Mozilla, and Microsoft on board, we’d probably see some fast and furious innovation in the CSS arena. Visit site »
Dave Hyatt, the main man behind Safari, notes (as others have) that the iPhone could signal the end of the “mobile web” as a separate concept from the “regular old web.” Visit site »
Safari still display a Flash of Unstyled Content on a fairly regular basis, and David explains why. Frankly, the FOUC doesn’t bug me much. It seems as though most web designers consider this a massive problem, but it just doesn’t really bother me. Visit site »
WebKit’s inspector now supports a sweet box model visual representation and some other goodies. It looks like us web developers who prefer Safari may not have to keep Firefox and Firebug around for debugging all that much longer… Visit site »
Dave Hyatt announces that Apple’s WebKit (the rendering engine supporting Safari) is now fully open-sourced. This could be the most exciting announcement of WWDC! Who’s going to be the first enterprising Windows developer to release a WebKit-based browser Visit site »
David Hyatt, Safari’s Daddy-O, has trouble implementing floats as per the CSS spec due to problems in other browsers. Interesting. Visit site »