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Scenes from an Acid TestPosted by Maciej Stachowiak on Thursday, March 27th, 2008 at 11:44 pm

In our earlier Acid3 post, I mentioned that the final test we passed, test 79, was super tough. This test covered many details of SVG text layout and font support. To pass it, we had to fix many bugs. Unless you are a hardocore standards geek you may not find all these details exciting, but since we talked a bit about our other recent fixes, I thought I?d tell the story. This subtest was originally contributed by Cameron McCormac

Link: http://webkit.org/blog/174/scenes-from-an-acid-test/

Latest Build: WebKit r31446 was built on 31 March 2008 and is a 13.6 MB download.

Link: http://nightly.webkit.org/files/trunk/win/...-SVN-r31446.zip

That's strange that they stopped producing new builds everyday. They probably stopped the builds after they reach 100/100 in the acid 3 test.

Well, my best guess would be that they are working now on future browser features now that the rendering engine its solid so the builds could be a little slower.

Well, my best guess would be that they are working now on future browser features now that the rendering engine its solid so the builds could be a little slower.

Somehow I doubt it, since they still pump out new source paks and Mac OS X builds readily. My guess is that

1) their Windows-based compiling system has some problems

2) their newer builds don't work well on Windows like they don't work well on Linux

3) they just somehow dont want to compile the code for Windows, although that should take little effort

I'm now suspecting case 2), since the later svn builds suddenly stop working on Linux, I'm now downloading the svn to my Windows rig, I'll test if it works.

That's strange that they stopped producing new builds everyday. They probably stopped the builds after they reach 100/100 in the acid 3 test.

They haven't been generating windows builds daily for a while, even before Acid3 was announced.

They haven't been generating windows builds daily for a while, even before Acid3 was announced.

Umm... do you mean the recent Windows builds are not generated by the WebKit team, but someone else? Or do you mean they started generating the Windows builds only after Acid3 was announced, and now stopped generating them after 100/100 is reached? :huh:

Umm... do you mean the recent Windows builds are not generated by the WebKit team, but someone else? Or do you mean they started generating the Windows builds only after Acid3 was announced, and now stopped generating them after 100/100 is reached? :huh:

Yes. They started generating the Windows buiild only after the test was announced and now it seems they have stopped because they have reached 100/100!

Just to let you guys know, a new Windows build for Webkit is now out. However, I cannot run the browser now after installing it, just a warning that you guys might want to wait until tomorrow's build (or whenever the next one comes out) to hopefully fix the issue.

Umm... do you mean the recent Windows builds are not generated by the WebKit team, but someone else? Or do you mean they started generating the Windows builds only after Acid3 was announced, and now stopped generating them after 100/100 is reached? :huh:

The WebKit site is run by Apple, Apple's main port is the OS X version (so it gets built nightly, and they have the building infrastructure in place)

the Windows port (while important) isn't their main focus, so while they do build "nightly" versions, they don't actually build it nightly, only every so often.

The WebKit site is run by Apple, Apple's main port is the OS X version (so it gets built nightly, and they have the building infrastructure in place)

the Windows port (while important) isn't their main focus, so while they do build "nightly" versions, they don't actually build it nightly, only every so often.

huh? I think once you get a building environment, it takes little to no effort to build a nightly for Windows. I have been building svn builds on my two year old T43 frequently and it just takes no more than a couple hours, and it's all automated so I can just go have a nap or surfing with my desktop while leaving the laptop do the building. And considering they have been pumping out Windows nightlies quite frequently in the past month or so, they should have their Windows-based building environment up and running quite well, so I highly doubt they just suddenly decided to stop releasing Windows nightlies for no reason. I'd say they only release Windows nightlies every so often because their Windows nightlies can only work every so often.

Just to let you guys know, a new Windows build for Webkit is now out. However, I cannot run the browser now after installing it, just a warning that you guys might want to wait until tomorrow's build (or whenever the next one comes out) to hopefully fix the issue.

So it's exactly like what I have suspected. I've built three svn builds for the past day, the latest being 31747, and all of them don't work on Windows. So I'd guess they have stopped releasing Windows nightlies because the Windows nightlies stopped working. And now they actually released a Windows nightly that doesn't even work, I wonder if it's because some Apple dude happened to see this thread so decided to release a Windows nightly even when it doesn't work, just to prove they are not stopping Windows nightlies because of getting 100/100 in Acid3 :laugh:

Now I guess I should discourage people from building WebKit on Windows and Linux until further info from Apple, because it's most likely a waste of time. I do wonder what they have done to the WebKit code so that it stops working on Windows and Linux shortly after scoring 100/100 on Acid3 :shiftyninja:

Latest Build:

WebKit r32005 was built on 17 April 2008 and is a 14.3 MB download

Link: WebKit r32005

This build is a little bit faster for me and does not seem to crash all that much.

PS - Can a mod please make this sticky?

Its been messing up for me lately, its not been crashing but after I've had it open for a while websites start to not finish loading fully, for example if Im using youtube after a while new videos wont start the load, not even the flash box where the video plays loads, and no images load just text. The bar progress bar seems to stop about half way through the address bar and i have to close and reopen Safari before anything will load again. Very strange.

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