When working on WebKit and the platform layer you come to a point where your primary browser is going to be WebKit based (or already is because you use Safari, OmniWeb,…). If you happen to use a platform that is not developed by Apple (Qt, Gtk+, Wx) you are going to be the first to see certain issues. I’m currently in this fantastic situation and have issues to see, understand and resolve. This is a brief summary of two issues…
The Qt4.4 Technology Preview 1 is out and webkit is integrated into it. It is the same code as on the public WebKit.git repository, actually the copy in Qt is always a bit behind as we do the development in the public git repository. After integrating QtWebKit into Qt we needed a small demo application. So we wrote a small browser and the result can be found in demos/browser, an older snapshot can be seen below, and the rsync copy…
WebKit offers two neat tools for web developers. This is Drosera a JavaScript debugger and the Web Inspector. Some weeks ago I wanted to find out how hard it would be to enable the WebInspector for the WebKit/Qt port and it is really easy. Almost everything of the Web Inspector is portable code, ready to use by the available ports. So everything one has to do is to implement the InspectorClient clas which accounts for a couple of hundred lines…