Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of Known incompatibilities between open-source WebKit and Safari


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Sep 11, 2007, 4:32:57 PM (17 years ago)
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beidson@apple.com
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  • Known incompatibilities between open-source WebKit and Safari

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    99Recent changes to the icon database have moved it towards a fully asynchronous model where all access to the disk occurs on a background thread.  It was necessary to make use of notifications to alert the browser that an icon has been received from network or the disk.  Safari 2.0.4 (Tiger) and the current Safari 3 beta (Tiger or Windows) do not listen for all of these notifications and therefore site icons will seem to work poorly in Bookmarks, History, and the location field.
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     11=== Problems running two WebKits after r25439 ===
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     13r25439 changed the format of the icon database on-disk to be more flexible and performant.  As a result, running a newer version at the same time as an older version will cause conflicts that may result in icons going missing.  Additionally if you are a developer running a debug build there are many ASSERTs you might see due to failed database operations.  See http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15185 for a more technical discussion.
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    1115= Safari 3.0.3 beta is available at http://www.apple.com/safari/ that resolves the following issues =