Recommended Posts

The WebKit Open Source ProjectWelcome to the website for the WebKit Open Source Project!WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. This website is also the home of S60's S60 WebKit development

Latest News

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.

  • 3 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...
This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Posts

    • Wake me up when this comes to PC. Until then... zzzzzzzz....
    • I was expecting the end of the world to happen before this game or elder scroll 6 to come out.
    • OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, a new AI chip built for LLM inference by Pradeep Viswanathan Image by OpenAI Thanks to the exponential growth of ChatGPT and other LLM-based applications, NVIDIA has grown from a $200 billion company into the first public company to reach a $5 trillion market cap. Even though hyperscalers such as Google and Amazon have their own mature AI accelerators, NVIDIA still dominates the AI infrastructure market with multiple generations of GPUs. Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta remain among NVIDIA’s largest customers, while Google and Amazon continue to be significant NVIDIA customers as they serve AI workloads for customers on their cloud platforms. Today, OpenAI and Broadcom announced Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first custom “Intelligence Processor” designed specifically for large language model inference. The new chip is the first product from a multi-generation compute platform being developed by OpenAI. OpenAI highlighted that Jalapeño was built from the ground up for current and future LLM workloads, rather than being a general-purpose accelerator adapted for AI. Despite heavy competition from Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and others, ChatGPT remains the most used AI platform in the world. OpenAI mentioned that it leveraged its knowledge of how its models and products run at scale, including ChatGPT, Codex, the API, and future agentic AI systems, to design this new chipset. Its chip architecture reduces data movement while balancing compute, memory, and networking resources. Jalapeño will be deployed in production systems starting in late 2026; however, engineering samples are already running machine learning workloads in OpenAI’s labs at production target frequency and power. According to its internal testing, OpenAI claims this chip can deliver “substantially better” performance per watt, and a detailed technical report is expected in the coming months. While OpenAI designed the chip, Broadcom handled silicon implementation and networking technologies, including Tomahawk networking silicon, and Celestica is assisting with board, rack, and system-level integration. OpenAI pointed out that Jalapeño went from initial design to manufacturing tape-out in just nine months, which it claims is the fastest ASIC development cycle achieved for a high-performance advanced semiconductor. The company attributed the speed of development to its own LLMs, which were used during the chip design and optimization process. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan stated that the company's plan is to deploy the Jalapeño platform at a gigawatt scale with Microsoft and other partners starting in 2026. With Jalapeño, OpenAI joins Google, Microsoft, and Amazon to become a full-stack AI player. The company already develops models and products, and is now moving deeper into infrastructure, including chips, kernels, networking, scheduling, and deployment systems.
    • I'm aware. That information should have been included in the article, making it more complete and information.
    • Converseen 0.15.2.5-2 by Razvan Serea Converseen is a free and open-source batch image converter and resizer. It supports over 100 formats, including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, SVG, TIFF, WebP, HEIC/HEIF, and many others. Users can convert, resize, rotate, flip, and compress multiple images at once. It can also transform entire PDF documents into individual image files. Powered by the ImageMagick library, Converseen features a user-friendly interface and is available in both installer and portable versions. Here’s a list of all the features you can find in Converseen: Batch image conversion (supports 100+ formats) Resize images in bulk Rotate and flip images in bulk Compress images to reduce file size Convert entire PDF documents into image files Support for multiple image formats (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PDF, BMP, GIF, and more) Customizable output settings (quality, resolution, etc.) Image effects and adjustments (such as brightness, contrast, etc.) Convert images to PDF User-friendly graphical interface Support for drag-and-drop functionality Extract an image from a Windows icon file (*ico) Supports adding watermark to images Portable and installer versions available Leverages ImageMagick for processing power Allows renaming of images in bulk Supports EXIF data editing (for JPEG images) Easy-to-use GUI for non-technical users Command-line support for advanced users Free and open-source software Cross-platform availability Available in multiple languages Download: Converseen 0.15.2.5-2 | Portable | 32-bit | ~40.0 MB (Open Source) View: Converseen Homepage | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
  • Recent Achievements

    • First Post
      Tom Schmidt earned a badge
      First Post
    • One Month Later
      D0nn13 earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Rookie
      +ChiefOfNeo went up a rank
      Rookie
    • One Year In
      Tom Schmidt earned a badge
      One Year In
    • One Month Later
      Tom Schmidt earned a badge
      One Month Later
  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      448
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      176
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      123
    4. 4
      Michael Scrip
      81
    5. 5
      Xenon
      75
  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!