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Contents:

About WebKit

• WebKit Team
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Applications using WebKit
• Known incompatibilities between open-source WebKit and Safari (Obsolete)
• Companies and Organizations that have contributed to WebKit

Newcomers

• Nightly Builds
• WebKit for Web Developers
• WebKit Features (Obsolete)

WebKit Ports

• Successful Port How To
• Apple's Mac Port
• Windows Port
• JSCOnly Port
  • OS(FUCHSIA)
• WebKitGTK Port
• WPE Port

Bugs and debugging

• List of WebKit environment variables
• Memory Use
• Nice Bugzilla queries
• webkit.org Shortlinks
• How to CC yourself on (or make other changes to) many bugs at once
• Debugging with Xcode
• lldb formatters
• Debugging with Visual Studio
• Debugging with LLDB or GDB
• Debugging the GTK port (WebKitGTK)

Getting Around the WebKit Source Code

• High-level Overview
• WebCore Rendering
• Code Paths for common operations

Development process

• Getting your patch reviewed
• Getting your bug looked at
• Watching for patches of interest

Documentation

• Acronyms
• Bugzilla: How to Update
• Building WebKit with Clang Address Sanitizer (ASan)
• ​Coding Style Guidelines
• Commit Queue
• Keeping the Tree Green
• Committer and Reviewer Tips
• Developer Tips
• Cygwin-downloader: How to Update
• Detecting WebKit with JavaScript
• Git: Using with WebKit
• Layout and Rendering: A Guide
• Python in the WebKit Project
• Supported specifications
• WebKit2 design documentation
• Styling Form Controls
• BuildBot
• Early Warning System (EWS)
• Web-facing API Review Checklist
• Adding a new feature / ENABLE Macro
• Deprecating web-facing features
• List of feature flags
• List of maintained features, and their maintainers
• List of unmaintained features
• Exporting Symbols
• Importing Third Party Tests
• Traversing Shadow DOM Tree
• Shadow DOM for Replaced Elements
• Scales and Zooms
• How to enable Form features
• About memory cache mechanism
• Updating the ANGLE third-party libraries
• Adding files to the build system
• Ruby
• FiveYearPlan
• FontSelection
• ComplexTextController
• FeatureFlags
• ExperimentalAndInternalFeatureFlags
• Scrolling
• Sccache
• Projects Worth Doing
• Clangd

Testing

• Layout Tests: Writing them for DumpRenderTree
• Layout Tests: Writing them for iOS UI features in WebKitTestRunner
• Layout Tests: Writing DumpAsMarkup Tests
• Layout Tests: Writing Reftests
• Layout Tests: Writing JavaScript-based Tests using testharness
• Importing WPT tests
• Exporting WPT tests
• Layout Tests: Exposing WebKit Internals
• Layout Tests and Patches: Creating and Submitting
• run-webkit-tests: Planned Design (obsolete)
• new-run-webkit-tests (Hacking on)
• TestExpectations files
• Layout Tests Search Path: Why we use the fallback path for test expectations that we do
• Triaging Test Failures
• Rebaselining with garden-o-matic or the rebaselining tool
• Rebaselining with the Rebaseline Server
• Dashboards
• Result Fallback Order (obsolete)
• Improving Regression Tests
• Common pixel differences
• pywebsocket: a WebSocket server for layout tests
• Associating information with tests
• Increasing Kernel limits on OS X

Performance

• Performance Tests
• Efficient Strings use
• Abandoned documents
• Inspecting the GC heap
• Analyzing Build Performance

Planning

NOTE: You can find updated information on the ​WebKit Documentation website.

• Proposal for moving WebKit development to Git
• Maintenance and architecture list
• Porting Macros plan
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: April 12-13, 2010
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: April 25-26, 2011
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: April 19-20, 2012
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: May 2-3, 2013
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: April 15-16, 2014
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: March 12-13, 2015
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: November 11-12, 2015
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: October 26, 2016
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: October 13, 2017
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: October 12, 2018
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: November 1, 2019
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: November 16 & 17, 2020
• WebKit Contributors Meeting: September 27 & 28, 2021
• Fixing page breaking
• Advantages of Jenkins over Buildbot
• Subpixel Layout
• Planned class renaming
• Ideas for improving bugs.webkit.org
• Draft Spec: Ad Click Attribution for the Web
• Commit Identifiers

JavaScriptCore

• JavaScriptCore Overview
• How to not mess up garbage collection
• JavaScript and DOM Benchmarks
• FastMalloc Glossary

Web Inspector

• Using Web Inspector (outdated)
• Contributing to Web Inspector
• Writing tests for Web Inspector
• Debugging the Web Inspector
• Web Inspector Style Guide
• Web Replay: Design and Mechanics
• Using the Remote Inspector with WebKitGTK and WPE

Bindings

• WebKit IDL
• WebIDL To-do

CSS

• CSS 2.1 Test Suite results
• CSS3 Text
• CSS Containment
• CSS ContainIntrinsicSize

SVG

• WebKit with SVG
• SVG properties
• SVG TODO List - Short notes

MathML

• WebKit with MathML
• Current goals for implementing MathML

License and copyright documents of open source software used on webkit.org websites

• Trac
• python-zxcvbn
• Perl Data::Password::zxcvbn
• Trac Account Manager Plugin