Surfin' SafariDave Hyatt's WeblogImplementing CSS (Part 1)- May 2, 2005 One of the most interesting problems (to me at least) in browser layout engines is how to implement a style system that can determine the style information for elements on a page efficiently. I worked on this extensively in the Gecko layout engine during my time at AOL and I've also done a lot of work on it for WebCore at Apple. My ideal implementation would actually be a hybrid of the two systems, since some of the optimizations I've done exist only in one engine or the other. When dealing..http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2005_05.html#007507 Safari and KHTML- May 1, 2005 KHTML developers respond to my posting of the WebCore Acid2 patches here and here. For what it's worth, the patches I posted are to WebCore, which consists of both KHTML and KWQ (our port of Qt). They are posted to illustrate all the WebCore bugs that had to be fixed in Safari to pass the Acid2 test. They are not solely KHTML patches. The antialiasing bug was in KWQ, and so doesn't even apply to KHTML. The better object element support necessarily involves KWQ as well, since the plugin...http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2005_04.html#008054 |