Carewolf 

Thursday I tagged QtWebKit 2.3.2. To avoid confusion I will present both QtWebKit for Qt 5.1 and QtWebKit 2.3.2. The new features in QtWebKit for Qt 5.1 can be seen on http://qt-project.org/wiki/New-Features-in-Qt-5.1 . Let me expand a few interesting ones below: Read More

Good news everybody! QtWebKit 2.3.0 was tagged in gitorious yesterday with the tarball available there as well For those of you that don't know: QtWebKit 2.3 is a port of QtWebKit from Qt 5 to Qt 4.8. It has most of the web-facing features, stability fixes and performance improvements that QtWebKit in Qt 5 has, it has skipped anything Qt 5 specific such as QQuickWebView, but has almost all improvements on the WebKit1 side (QWebView). QtWebKit 2.3 also maintains API and ABI compatibility with QtWebKit 2.2 from Qt 4.8, and is thereby an easy drop-in replacement. The released version 2.3.0 has roughly the same WebKit version and patches as Qt 5.0.2. Read More

I tagged the first release candidate of QtWebKit 2.3 yesterday. You can find on gitorious, where you also find the tar-ball. Not much have changed since beta2, crashes fixes, build fixes on non-Linux and a bug that caused browsers to open links in a new window when set to open in new tab. Read More

Just a quick update to tell you beta 2 of QtWebKit 2.3 has been tagged. I am planning to tag the release before the end of the month. I would like to already now thank for all the encouragement and backup I have received on the project, Qupzilla and rekonq developers have been very helpfully and are already recommending to use QtWebKit 2.3 beta together with their applications, and a handfull of linux distros have been packaging it. The only thing missing is more feedback from Mac or Windows developers. On Linux this beta could be considered release quality, but on Mac and Win, there are still some issues I hope can get ironed out soon. Read More

Now that Qt 5.0 has been released, it is time to think about the release of QtWebKit 2.3. For those who do not remember, QtWebKit 2.3 is QtWebKit 3.0 (QtWebKit from Qt 5.0) ported to Qt 4.8. Read More

Welcome back, it is has been a long long time since I last made a blog post. Since then I have moved from working on KHTML in my free time to being payed to work on QtWebKit full time. I was hired by Nokia last December and was transferred to Digia in September together with most of the Qt team. At Digia most of our work goes into getting ready for Qt 5. We do however have a small side project for Qt 4.x I would like to tell you about, QtWebKit 2.3. Read More

So the cold war between KHTML and WebKit heated up a little again, this time the enemy isn't Apple, but former KHTML developers, and KDE personas. I will spare you the links, since it is all too embarrassing. Read More

As some might have noticed GMail was updated this morning. As usual this broke the standard view Konqueror, but only if you use the recommended method of spoofing as Firefox. Read More

Well, at least according to css3.info . It is nice to when the changes you make, make a splash :D Though seriously the most unique CSS 3 support we have are the CSS 3 Selectors I have meddled with for two years, the rest is mainly imported from WebKit in some form (such as text-overflow:ellipsis and CSS 3 Background and Borders), sometimes the imports has been easy sometimes painfull. Read More

Some might have seen the summary before, because I posted this blog last week, but pulled it again because I wanted to double check that my recommendation is sane in MSIE. Turns out my assumption was right so here it is again: Read More

As some of you know: When I implemented text-shadow for KHTML back in 2004, I added the ability to draw multiple shadows, because it was just a minor addition in my implementation, but one that meant we followed the entire spec. unlike Safari. Read More

Yay I got my SoC project accepted! So what is it: avKode - A Phonon backend for FFMPEG It is basically killing a horrible interface and an error-source called xinelib, and going directly to the source. This also enables more powerfull features in the long run such as capture and encoding. Read More

Last year I completed the Google SoC with an entry about CSS 2.1 in KHTML printing. The project was a great succes despite low visability. (You can see the result by printing documents in Konqueror and notice that headers usually follows their bodies and text is rarely broken so one line is left alone a page). Read More

I haven't had much time this fall to do much actual KDE development. So the number of tasks is starting to accumulate. I might have time to do one or two the next couple of months so I would like to give you the opportunity to give feed-back on what you feel is most important. Read More

Seems Linus has started a new little flamewar :D Among KDE developers we have always stated that anti-GNOME flamewars are only among users, and while it is technically true. It doesn't prevent users who also developers in other projects to join them. I will just comment here and hopefully not contribute to the fire. Read More

As some bugs.kde.org votes might have noticed I've fixed GMail (standard view) again in Konqueror. Although it is an odd sort of fix, because I really just improved our Mozilla emulation so we change one more bit from our usual KHTML/MSIE behavior to that of Mozilla when spoofing as a Mozilla based browser. This means that GMail only works when you use UserAgent spoofing and set it to Firefox. Read More

As the title says, Acid2 is now passed. With the help of Hyatt's Safari patches, Ivor Hewitt(*) and I have finally made Konqueror pass Acid2 as only the second browser. Read More

Notice how there isn't a vs in the title? :) Hyatt and Maciej joined us on IRC yesterday, and we had some really good discussions. I might as well also admit that Maciejs comment was true (but out of context). Please notice that that implies we are discussing solutions and a common future. The idea of a common source tree is pretty much abandoned as we have very different goals and requirements, but we are discussing improved cooperation. With Apple just having released Tiger and us preparing for KDE4 we have a unique opportunity for bringing our source trees closer again. Read More

I just wish to weigh in on debacle to clear up some mistakes. First of all I would like to say I agree with Zack. The annoying part is not that Apple don't cooperate as much as they could. They are actually helpfull in answering questions and tries at least to separate OS X specific features in the code (allthough they fail miserably at it). No, our problem are users who think Apple does more and underestimate the effort it takes for us to implement patches from WebCore. We are doing this for free and for fun, all we really want is appreciation for our effort. Read More

It looks like my thesis will be late (Gee, what a surprise), and since I soon have to buy the apartment I've been renting, I've been looking for a job, and finally found one. Read More

Lately I've been busy with many different projects, and deadlines are approaching. On the 2nd of February we enter full feature freeze and there are many things I "need" to have done by then. Too make things worse I go on ski-vacation on the 28th, and also have deadlines for my real (non-hobby) projects in February. Read More

Since the last blog I've added a few more goodies to KHTML most interestingly text-shadow, but also :target, :enabled and :disabled pseudo-classes. The most interesting development in KHTML though is Germain's work on incremental repaints (speeding up CSS animated webpages). Hopefully he can fix the last couple of regressions and commit it soon. Read More

I was working on render_list.cpp the other day and decided to complete our set of CSS2 list-styles. I just wonder if anyone anywhere has ever used the armenian and georgian styles, or even the various japanese "alphabetic" types? The really crappy part of all these styles is that the CSS2 standard doesn't say how they should be handled or rendered. They just list the 3 first entries or so, if they even do that. Read More

Damn, now even I have blog. Like I used to renounce mobile phones (until 2001), but have come to accept them as a usefull form of communications, I might learn to embrace blogging as well. Read More