WebKit now supports full page zooming on Mac and Windows. Because this feature involves new WebKit API, it’s not something you’ll see in nightly builds by default (since the Safari used with the nightlies calls the text zoom API). I have added a debug preference, though, that will cause the text zoom methods in WebKit to do full page zoom instead.
An interesting feature.
The Safari Microformats plugin notifies you when the author of the website has published Microformats and allows you to easily import hCards and hCalendars in Address Book and iCal.
Microformats are the next big thing.
Brent Simmons, the author of NetNewsWire:
I wasn’t planning on redesigning my weblog—but then I was recently reminded that you can do shadows and rounded corners using new CSS bits in the latest WebKit.
-webkit-box-shadow creates shadows. -webkit-border-radius creates rounded corners.
Check the website with a browser that supports the CSS (i.e., Safari) and with a browser that doesn’t support it (e.g., Firefox). CSS3 makes round corners (and a bunch of other designs) really effortless.
At this moment, scrolling in the website is slow and takes extra CPU usage.
When Apple announced the iPhone, they also ushered in yet another mobile browser for web developers to contend with: Mobile Safari. While Safari is built on the typical web standards supported by other browsers, Mobile Safari brings in an entirely new paradigm of web browsing. With its touch-screen display, users tap and “pinch” on web pages to bring the content into view. And while most web sites “should” work normally on the iPhone and iPod touch’s Mobile Safari, there are some additional tweaks web designers can make to their sites to enhance the user experience.
The title is “Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Safari: Ensuring Your Website Works on the iPhone and iPod touch”. Now available on O’reilly Safari as a Short Cut.
We have another cool new CSS feature to talk about: animation specified in CSS. There is a lot of ground to cover here, so we’ll start with the basics first.
Another reason to love Safari/Webkit.
Leopard comes with Safari 3. This means we don’t have access to Safari 2. This can be problematic to some users who want to test their web apps in Safari 2. Multi-Safari provides a way to run multiple versions of Safari. The downloads include Safari 1.0, 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 2.0.4.
WebKit team announced the brand new Web Inspector for WebKit. Available for both Mac and Windows.
- Completely redesigned interface, no longer a transparent panel
- Works with any WebView inside third-party applications, not just Safari
- Supports docking to the inspected page
- Shows all resources included by the page, sorted into categories
- Global search through all text-based resources
- Console to show errors and warnings with live JavaScript evaluation
- Network panel showing resource load timeline along with HTTP request and response headers
- Resource size and load time summary graph in the Network panel
- Syntax highlighted HTML source
- Inline JavaScript and HTML error reporting
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I don’t think this English works. Am I installing or uninstalling it?
