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Contents:

About WebKit ¶

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

Newcomers ¶

• Nightly Builds
• WebKit for Web Developers
• WebKit Features

WebKit Ports ¶

• Successful Port How To

• Apple's Windows Port
• Cairo-based Windows Port
• Qt's WebKit Port (QtWebKit)
• EFL's WebKit Port
• Gtk+'s WebKit Port
• Adobe's AIR Port
• wxWidgets' WebKit Port
• Clutter's WebKit Port
• TinOS's WebKit Port
• Chromium WebKit Port
• BREW MP Webkit Port
• Windows CE Webkit Port

Bugs and debugging ¶

• Memory Use
• Nice Bugzilla queries
• How to CC yourself on (or make other changes to) many bugs at once
• ​Debugging WebKit with Xcode
• Known crashers
• Debugging DumpRenderTree with GDB on OSX
• Debugging DumpRenderTree on Windows with Visual Studio/VC++ Express
• Tips for debugging using GDB
• Tips for debugging using Visual Studio
• Debugging the WebKit2 Web Process

Developer Tools ¶

• Web Inspector
• Web Inspector Developer Survival Guide

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
• ​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
• Configurable QtWebKit Features
• 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
• Exporting Symbols
• Importing Third Party Tests
• Traversing Shadow DOM Tree

Layout Tests ¶

• Layout Tests: Writing them for DumpRenderTree
• Layout Tests: Writing DumpAsMarkup Tests
• Layout Tests: Writing Reftests
• Layout Tests: Writing JavaScript-based Tests using testharness
• Layout Tests and Patches: Creating and Submitting
• run-webkit-tests: Planned Design (obsolete)
• new-run-webkit-tests (Hacking on)
• test_expectations.txt files
• Layout Tests Search Path: Why we use the fallback path for test expectations that we do
• Triaging Test Failures
• Chromium (for now) Rebaselining Tool
• Rebaseline Server
• Dashboards
• Result Fallback Order (obsolete)
• Improving Regression Tests
• Common pixel differences

Performance Tests ¶

• Writing Performance Tests

Planning ¶

• 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
• Fixing page breaking
• Advantages of Jenkins over Buildbot
• Subpixel Layout

JavaScriptCore ¶

• JavaScriptCore Overview
• JavaScript performance improvement ideas
• How to not mess up garbage collection
• JS Core Garbage Collector
• JavaScript and DOM Benchmarks
• FastMalloc Glossary
• SquirrelFish

Bindings ¶

• WebKit IDL
• Manipulating the DOM model using Glib/Gobject bindings

CSS ¶

• CSS 2.1 Test Suite results

SVG ¶

• WebKit with SVG
• SVG TODO List - Short notes

MathML ¶

• Webkit with MathML
• Current goals for implementing MathML