WebKit

In my previous post I discussed my most recent contributions to flexbox code in WebKit mainly targeted at reducing the number of interoperability issues among the most popular browsers. The ultimate goal was of course to make the life of web developers easier. It got quite some attention (I loved Alan Stearns’ description of the post) so I decided to write another one, this time focused in the changes I recently landed in WebKit (Safari’s engine) to improve the handling of elements with aspect ratio inside flexbox, a....

Flexbox had a lot of early problems, but by mid-May 2020 where our story begins, both Firefox and Chromium had done a lot of work on improving things with this feature. WebKit, however, hadn’t caught up. Prioritizing the incredible amounts of work a web engine requires is difficult. The WebKit implementation was still passable for very many (most) cases of the core features, and it didn’t have problems that caused crashes or something that urgently demanded attention, so engineers dedicated their limited time toward other things....

Hi there, fellow readers. Today I’m starting a mini-series of posts to talk a little bit about the work I’ve been lately doing at Igalia around WebKit and Blink web engines. I’ve been involved in the implementation of a new standard called CSS Grid Layout in both engines. My mate rego has already talked about that, so take a look at his post if you need to know more about the basics....

For a while now Igalia and Bloomberg have been collaborating to advance Web technologies. As part of that, I’ve been lately involved on improving some editing capabilities of WebKit (posts to follow soon). As you probably know, in HTML5 any element can be editable. The feature was introduced some time ago, but was finally standardized by the WHATWG. It’s as easy as adding the attribute contenteditable=true and voilà, the magic unfolds (check it out!...

I have the pleasure to frequently hack on libsoup as part of the great Igalia WebKit team. Many things are happening in libsoup but that’s a topic for some other upcoming post. Today I will talk about a new feature I landed just a few days ago and that will be shipped with the 2.40 release. I’m talking about the support for http://publicsuffix.org. What’s that? The public suffix list is a community driven initiative from Mozilla whose aim is to provide a trusted list of well known public domain suffixes, like for example: ....

It’s being a while since I joined the Igalia’s WebKitGtk+ team. Mainly focused on network stuff, I managed to tackle several issues during this time although nothing like what I call “the one”. Last week, after really a lot of work, we landed the patches that add HTTP cache support to WebKitGtk+. It all started in libsoup. The idea was to create an HTTP cache inside libsoup using the new-io branch started by Dan during the past WebKitGtk+ hackfest....