Tag Archives: WebKit

Introducing scribbr.com

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Chris Williams

Scribbr is a tiny web app for drawing and posting to twitter. With jQuery, the user can control the color, size, opacity of the cursor to draw on the canvas element 320 x 320 in size. Last summer, I had … Continue reading →

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Fun with WebKit css gradients

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Chris Williams

As a follow up to yesterday’s woeful tale of using WebKit’s proprietary css properties, I wanted to follow up with a couple examples of how one can use these features without getting all “bevel-ly” The only benefit of text-shadow is … Continue reading →

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-webkit-background-clip Problems

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Chris Williams

Someday, all the nifty Photoshop Blending options will be available as CSS properties. Mark my words! In the mean time, we’re kind of stuck with drop shadows, and now gradients (and text strokes) for WebKit browsers. Too bad you can’t … Continue reading →

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Tackling Safari’s slow gif “feature” with jQuery

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Chris Williams

Safari’s WebKit has a funny behavior of displaying animated gif files at a lower frame rate than Firefox. From what I can tell, WebKit (including Google Chrome) caps the animated gif frame rates at 10fps. While it may be faster … Continue reading →

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