Comments on: Webkit Nightly: Not Smiling

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:42:01 +0000

Update: As Marc Northrop points out, both of my bugs have now been resolved with the submission of Bug 18375

By: Marc Nothrop

Marc Nothrop — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:22:29 +0000

Jeff, you may be interested to know that the bug that allowed Acid3 tests 75 and 76 to pass (17077) has been closed, and work has moved to: 18375: Make SVG animation work, "...where 'work' is defined as passing reasonable amount of SVG animation test suite so that remaining issues can be tracked as individual bugs." Hopefully SVG/SMIL support will see rapid improvement in WebKit.

By: James Deering

James Deering — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:50:16 +0000

“Does anyone know of other sites using SMIL for UI?”

You know I am.

http://deerring.com

Sincerely;

James

By: Test

Test — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:36:12 +0000

>Wingogi results for your SVG test suite

There are big problems with fonts in public windows WinGogi build, it’s impossible to make correct test.

By: AG

AG — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:25:34 +0000

(Offtopic)

Id like to know Wingogi results for your SVG test suite.

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:26:27 +0000

Ok, I've opened two of the simplest possible SMIL bugs I could think of: 18187 and 18188. It would be great if someone could point me to a simple SMIL example that works in WebKit. On the other hand, does anyone have a good source for either the WebKit of Apple logo in SVG? I'd like to use it on my blog (linking back to their website, of course). I haven't received a response to my email query from Dave or Maciej yet...

By: masklinn

masklinn — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:36:53 +0000

> If I want to fix my website for WebKit nightly users that takes extra work.

Which is exactly why you shouldn’t bother: add a little warning maybe, report bugs to the Webkit team, but do *not* crappify your code to try to patch the ever-changing bugs of a nightly. It’s not worth it, and only fairly hardcore geeks bother with nightlies.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:51:06 +0000

Changing your site to suit bugs in a nightly will wear you out. Changing to meet the expected behaviour of the next release based on nightlies just makes you an early adopter. Which could also wear you out but at least is more rational.

@David: I don’t follow webkit closely enough to know your build process but I really don’t get why you’d turn off a feature to ship a release. I mean, you must be working on other features that won’t ship in this version, shouldn’t that concurrent development be handled by branching?

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:35:51 +0000

@Jeff

Individuals like yourself who download and test the latest nightly builds of WebKit help us to create the highest quality product. For that, we thank you. How can I help? The number one way you can help is to report issues you encounter while using WebKit.

Report the problems, you can add your report to Bugzilla or comment on an existing ticket.

By: David Hyatt

David Hyatt — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:12:31 +0000

Nightly builds are not meant for end users to use. They are development builds. If nightly builds don’t work with your Web site, then that is not a big deal. You shouldn’t fix your Web site just to accommodate development builds.