Tiffany B. Brown

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Posts in: WebKit

On Apple’s iPad, HTML5, and the future of Flash
So Apple announced the iPad, and it won’t support Flash. That shouldn’t be a surprise. Neither the iPhone nor iPod Touch support Flash. Indeed most mobile platforms don’t (yet) support Flash. Even the smartest of smart phones have limited processing power and storage space compared to laptops and desktops. According to Steve Jobs, Apple doesn’t support [...] [4 Feb 2010]
WebKit gets Web Inspector Updates
Yesterday the folks at Surfin’ Safari announced several new and/or improved features to its Web Inspector. Web Inspector is a debugging tool similar to Firebug and Page Speed or YSlow. These updates will be be available in the next version of Safari. To use them now, install a nightly build of WebKit. The latest version [...] [4 Nov 2009]
Firefox 3.5 JavaScript vulnerability; WebKit 3D CSS transforms for Leopard
Day old news because I am fresh like that. Critical JavaScript vulnerability in Firefox 3.5 The vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling the JIT in the JavaScript engine. This post tells you how to do so. 3D CSS transforms available in Leopard via WebKit nightlies The feature was already available in Safari 4 for Snow Leopard, but now it’s [...] [15 Jul 2009]