Simon Willison’s Weblog

CSS Transforms. WebKit can now do transforms (scale, rotate, translate and skew) in CSS via a new -webkit-transform property. Transforms behave like position relative in that they don’t affect the layout of the page. You can also provide a full affine transform matrix as a shortcut.

# 26th October 2007, 9:45 pm / affinetransformation, apple, browsers, css, graphics, matrix, safari, transforms, webkit

WebKit Does HTML5 Client-side Database Storage. SQLite strikes again. The WebKit team have included a neat update to their Web Inspector that lets you browse and modify your client-side databases.

# 20th October 2007, 12:03 pm / apple, html5, offline, safari, sqlite, webinspector, webkit, whatwg

Safari Beta 3.0.1 for Windows. A nice fast turnaround on fixes for security flaws in the beta.

# 14th June 2007, 9:56 am / apple, patch, safari, security

Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours (via) Once again, down to handling of alternative URL protocol schemes.

# 12th June 2007, 1:30 pm / 0day, apple, safari, security, windows

Enabling the debug menu on Safari for Windows. “Turn off site-specific hacks” is one of the menu options.

# 12th June 2007, 1:18 pm / apple, browsers, safari, safari3, windows

Safari 3 Public Beta. Safari for Windows. Unfortunately this kills the best excuse corporate Web developers had for getting Macs (“we need to run all our supported browsers on one machine”).

# 11th June 2007, 11:06 pm / apple, safari, windows