Surfin' Safari

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Now that WebKit has its own web site on OpenDarwin, it's time for this blog to change. For starters, Surfin' Safari has now moved to here. Another big change is that I will no longer be the only person talking to you about Safari and WebKit changes. Some of the other members of the team will be posting about what they're working on as well.

I will leave this blog up here so that all the links remain valid, but all subsequent posts will be to the new blog. Update your bookmarks. :)

Nokia uses WebCore in a new mobile browser for the Series 60 platform.

We've already received and committed several patches from external contributors and the repository has only been live for a few hours!

As some of you have already noticed (those of you that built), the new Web Kit not only passes Acid2, but it's also substantially faster at loading Web pages and at handling JavaScript. It contains a number of additional performance improvements that went in post-Tiger.

One question people have asked is "Does this have to replace my system frameworks?" The answer is "No." You can run this custom version of Web Kit with a particular instance of Safari without replacing your system frameworks. The run-safari script we provided does this for you. If you study what it does, you'll see that you can easily try out your own WebKit apps with the new frameworks as well. We in fact encourage you to do this so that you can make sure your apps are functioning properly with the latest WebKit.

As some of you may have heard at WWDC Monday, the Safari team is proud to announce that we are making significant changes in the way we operate, and these changes start today.

Here is what we are launching:

1. webkit.opendarwin.org, the new web site for WebKit, WebCore and JavaScriptCore.
2. Full CVS access to WebCore and JavaScriptCore, our frameworks based on khtml and kjs. This repository includes the complete history of the project, so all patches past and present can be viewed.
3. WebKit, the Objective-C API that wraps WebCore, is also being open sourced. It is in the same CVS repository.
4. This repository is live. You can pull and build it today. As we improve the frameworks you can pull and run the latest and greatest. If you want to run a version of Safari that passes the Acid2 test, now you can.
5. This repository is open. We welcome contributions.
6. From now on bugs in these frameworks will be tracked in public at bugzilla.opendarwin.org. You can submit bugs in the open, view the status of our work, attach patches to bugs, and test code fixes to those bugs.
7. A new public mailing list, webkit-dev@opendarwin.org, for development discussion of WebKit, WebCore, and JavaScriptCore.
8. A new public IRC channel - #webkit on irc.freenode.net.

And finally, going forward we will be engaging actively with the community. Find us on IRC and on the mailing list, jump in, and get involved!

Build. Run. Test. It's live!