A friend pointed out a slightly confused post by a Mozilla developer regarding WebKit/GTK+. I don’t really care much for browser wars, but since this post touches on so many aspects of the browser that I’m working on, like Cairo…
glyph-pixmaps Carl‘s glyph-pixmaps work has been merged to xserver. This provides a speedup for text rendering by hashing and caching glyph data to avoid constant re-uploads. Eric Anholt breaks it down for us. Cairo and XShm Shared memory has had…
WebKit/Gtk+ gets a reviewer I am now an official WebKit reviewer. This should help speed up development of the Gtk+ port. Thanks go to Apple and the WebKit team! Canvas support using Cairo A few hours ago I landed support…
Just about two years ago when I was living in Edinburgh, university researcher Harry Halpin and I set up a space in the basement of an old church/the Forest Cafe with the goals of promoting and supporting Free Software and…
Yesterday’s talk on WebKit/Gtk+ at LinuxConf Europe was well received, and I was particularly impressed by the turnout considering that it was scheduled against Linus’ git BOF next door. The audience had more questions than there was time for, but…
I’ve been working with George Wright the last few days to integrate the WebKit/Gtk+ browser engine into Nokia’s recently announced EAL (Engine Abstraction Layer). WebKit/Gtk+ will soon be joining Opera and Mozilla as a well-supported alternative browser for the Maemo…
Sunday came and went in Birmingham. This was an opportunity to meet many of my colleagues face to face for the first time. Managed D-Bus talk went very well. Huge interest from the usual suspects, but also from the wider GNOME…
The WebKit Gtk+/Cairo port has recently had a burst of activity — it’s really starting to shape up. I’ve recently had the opportunity to coordinate my efforts on the port and in the last couple of weeks we’ve provided patches for…
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