Maciej Stachowiak from WebKit just blogged about 10 new things that are coming out with WebKit 3. The contents are very exciting. I can’t wait till i get my hands on the new Mac (which will be here in a couple weeks) and see it on there (things generally looks better on mac, windows safari is great, but not as good as the one on mac).
1. Enhanced Rich Text Editing - woot! This is the first time I see any groups say they are officially supporting all the different RTE. For those of you wonder what that means, it means the rich text editor you use on gmail and so on (including the one i’m using on WordPress) will be greatly enhanced both from functionality and speed with WebKit 3. We get all the buzz about how browsers are improving the memory leak, javascript core engine and so on. Those are important overall, but down to the detailed level, WYSIWYG (RTE) is one of those heavy javascript app that simply not well supported, although works and being really cool.
2. Faster Javascript and DOM - nothing but “Hooray!”
3. Faster Page Loading
4. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) - SVG is an XML markup language for graphics that allows rich interaction and which can be mixed directly with XHTML.
5. XPath - Finally natively supported by someone.
6. New and Improved XML Technologies - Much more complete and compatible XMLHttpRequest, including support for event listeners, incremental updates for persistent server connections, parsing of more XML MIME types, support for more HTTP methods.
7. Styleable Form Controls - God, it reminds me the pain. Please release it faster so I don’t have to depend on pain killers.
8. Advanced CSS Styling - early implementations of CSS3 (i can’t wait anymore)
9. Reduced Memory Use - Yes. This is wait too important with all the great new features mentioned here. I don’t want to give up stable browsing experiences for cool features, it’s just no intuitive.
10. Web Developer Tools - I love you guys. You heard that, IE team? Now, where the hell is my dev tool on IE? No, IE Dev Toolbar doesn’t cut it. Where’s my error console that makes sense?
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