Jay Robinson

"WebKit2’s type renderer is hugely improved. (No need to use -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; ever again!)"

— Dustin Curtis (Via WebKitBits)

List of CSS Cursors for WebKit →

Need this every now and then. Thought I had archived it here but I guess not…

BlackBerry PlayBook, new 7″ tablet from RIM. Dual core, dual cameras. USB, HDMI for 1080p out. HTML5 video and Flash. Let the tablet games begin!

The interactions in this look great, and for once not overly ripping off Apple.

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Sencha:

Resolution Independent Mobile UI »

David Kaneda explains a technique to create a scalable, resolution independent user interface in our latest Sencha Blog post. A similar technique was used for Sencha Touch.

WebKitBits, via Sencha:

Excitement has been building for some time for a BlackBerry device with a modern WebKit browser. Michael Mullany puts the brand new BlackBerry Torch through the paces, from the point of view of a web developer, to see what it can handle. The results? Pretty impressive… Check out his article on the Sencha blog.

"If IE9 launches without CSS3 transitions in early 2011, it will be the only browser out of Opera, Firefox, Webkit that doesn’t support them."

— Zachary Johnson

"Browser makers like Microsoft and Mozilla should swallow their pride, take the unique features they’ve each brought to their respective browsers, and start figuring out how to develop them on top of WebKit — it’s the quickest way for web development to move forward as a whole."

— Dear Microsoft, Please Use WebKit by David Kaneda.

The WebKit Reality →

David Kaneda:

“[I]f you can quickly develop an amazing experience tailored for mobile WebKit, why shouldn’t you? In addition to providing an immensely better interface for over 90% of your users, you’re learning the skills of tomorrow’s smartphones and tablets.”

"How screwed would we be if the WebKit team weren’t so god damn competent?"

— Joe Hewitt, April 2010 (via @endofnative)

Multi-Safari →

Safari 5 is my new favorite browser, but I was a little hesitant to upgrade until I’d figured out how I could keep Safari 4. The Multi-Safari project solves that handily.

The Multi-Safari website allows you to download all the previous versions of Safari back to 1.0. Every version is specially packaged to use the WebKit rendering engine that was available at the time of release.

Now, in my Applications folder, I have Safari 2.0.app, Safari 3.2.1.app, Safari 4.0.5.app and Safari.app (Safari 5), along with the WebKit Nightly. (While running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the oldest version I’m able to run is Safari 2.0.)

Although Safari does not have the market fragmentation of IE, it can be useful to have older versions around for testing Ext JS. Plus, I’m just kinda sentimental like that.

A beautiful card game of Memory created using WebKit animations.

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Our Solar System, an experiment with CSS3 border-radius, -webkit transforms & animations.

Be sure to check out the article for Internet Explorer’s parallel flat universe.

Via Jay Robinson for WebKitBits.

Kevin Burg: “Indie cartoon about Safari - I’d watch it, if it existed.”

Me too.

Microsoft changes mind, Windows Phone 7 will *not* support WebKit CSS property →

Let me get this straight: Microsoft, for their “iPhone killer” (a vaporware device that practically rebels against usability, planned for introduction in Q4 2010, where it will face over 85 million iPhone OS devices as well as the 4th generation iPhone) starts to consider adopting WebKit CSS properties and online commenters talk them out of it??

And they actually listen??

Did the web dev community just punk Microsoft?