Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Nov 2007 18:51 UTC, submitted by Hakime
"Lately we've been talking about a lot of great new features in the latest development trunk of WebKit - features like web fonts, client-side database storage, CSS transforms and CSS animation. These features will likely make it to an official release someday. But I'd like to take a step back and talk about some older features, namely all the great stuff in our recent stable release. Apple recently released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, including Safari 3. The latest Safari is also included in Mac OS X 10.4.11, the latest update to Tiger. A corresponding version is available as the latest Safari for Windows Beta, including the new features and lots of stability and usability improvements. Apple's site can tell you a lot about the new end-user features of Safari 3. But a lot of the goodness is on the inside, in the WebKit engine that powers Safari. Here's a list of ten of the most exciting engine enhancements since the Safari 2 version of WebKit, with lots of details and demos. These features are all included in the WebKit that comes with Safari 3 - you don't have to download nightlies or anything else to get them."
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I think the most significant new feature here is SVG support. Maybe some year soon we will be able to really rely on SVG just being there for most people.
The javascript raytracer speed improvement is good, but on my system firefox is still twice as fast. I'd like to see a WebKit vs. Gecko benchmark suite sometime (preferably by someone impartial, ie not a developer of either).
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Coming with KDE 4.1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
Coming with android
http://code.google.com/android/
