December 2005 - webkit-dev - lists.webkit.org

DOS in Safari/WebKit?
by Kurt Kohler 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

I haven't been following the chat room so I might have missed it, but I'm surprised there hasn't been any discussion here about the "denial of service" bug reported at the following URL. http://www.security-protocols.com/advisory/sp-x22-advisory.txt I don't want to jump to conclusions, but we're talking about open source software here. He could have fixed it himself or at least filed a Bugzilla report. As far as I can tell he did neither. He does claim to have reported it to Apple. Is it in radar perhaps? I'll wait before I say what I think about this guy. I don't want to be slanderous without cause. BTW I saw a claim elsewhere that it had been fixed in the nightlies, but it looks like as of a few minutes ago ensureRows in TOT still has the problem (it does a resize with a value that doesn't appear to be checked against any limit). Does html define a limit on the number of rows in a table? Kurt Kohler

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Proposed renamings page
by Maciej Stachowiak 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

I put up a page on the wiki of various proposed renamings of classes and methods. If you think there are classes or methods that could use a better name, feel free to put them here to give them bake time; http://wiki.opendarwin.org/index.php?title=WebKit:Renaming_Proposals and I would also encourage you to comment on existing proposals. Regards, Maciej

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SVG Code Overview
by Eric Seidel 17 Dec '05

17 Dec '05

Tomorrow I'm sitting down with some of the other Safari folks to go over the SVG code in detail. In preparation for such, I have made up a little summary of the new SVG files added to the WebCore project. Thinking that this summary might be useful to the larger WebKit developer community, I made it part of the wiki: http://wiki.opendarwin.org/index.php/WebKit:WebCore_File_Hierarchy Someone with greater wiki skills than I should feel free to clean it up as needed. The information I wished to convey is there, and that's what's important. -eric

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Crash on www.skibonk.com
by Patrick Collison 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Hey, On skibonk.com with Safari 2.0.1 I'm presented with a JavaScript dialogue warning me that there are known problems with the site that crash the browser. Sure enough, after less than a minute's browsing, Safari crashed as I clicked on a link. Just wondering if devs are aware of this. I didn't find anything in a quick search of the bugtracker. -Patrick

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SVG on by default
by Eric Seidel 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Greetings, After many months of intense hacking, WebKit's SVG support has finally reached a level of stability such that we are now turning it on by default! What this means for you: 1. The next time you build, Xcode will (unfortunately) rebuild all of WebCore as the target settings have changed. 2. Those of you who have been building with the "--svg" option no longer need to, it's on by default. 2. If you wish to continue building WebKit without SVG support, you must now pass "--nosvg" to "build-webkit". Take care, -eric p.s. If you haven't already, take our SVG support of a spin! I've attached a small list of SVG urls: http://www.openclipart.org/ http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/ http://www.kevlindev.com/gui/index.htm http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/ http://svg-whiz.com/samples.html

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bunch of layout tests failing
by Maciej Stachowiak 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

I see the following layout test failing (plus two apple-only tests). Is it just me? css2.1/t0805-c5519-brdr-r-01-e css2.1/t0805-c5521-brdr-l-01-e dom/xhtml/level2/html/HTMLTextAreaElement12 fast/css/acid2-pixel fast/css/acid2 Regards, Maciej

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New xslt errors during run-webkit-tests
by Eric Seidel 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

FYI, there are now additional error messages printed from libXSLT while running run-webkit-tests. These were introduced by new "failure-case" layout tests which I added as part of: http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5875 They are caused by our current XSLT error reporting architecture which dumps errors to the console (instead of to the generated webpage) due to: http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6040 If they get too annoying we can either turn off XSLT error reporting in debug builds... or fix 6040. -eric

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Proposal to make Univ Binaries be part of standard build
by Dan Wood 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

I have been trying to build recent TOT webkit builds as universal binaries by hacking the build-webkit script, with intermittent success. Sometimes, the TOT will build OK as universal; other times, I get various build errors. (c.f. Bug 5905). With Intel macs looming on the horizon, I think that it would be a good idea to try to keep TOT in good shape for building universal binaries, so that if something gets checked in that breaks the build, it gets marked as a regression and fixed quickly. I know that some developers in webkit-land are doing their builds on PowerBooks, and adding the time to build universal EVERY time might not be a welcome change. So I think it would make sense to have an option to the build-webkit script to be able to force only the native architecture to be built. In fact, maybe for "Development" builds, it should always be native architecture; but the default for a "Deployment" build would be a universal binary. While we're at it, I think it would be very handy to update the build script to include other options passed on the command line to the compiler. (I suggested this in bug 5854). I (along with others, like bdash for his nightly builds) need to set some other options (such as post-processing to strip the symbols), so it would be handy to be able to pass those into the build process without having to hack at the build script. What to people think? Is it time for Universal Builds to come of age? Dan Wood Karelia Software

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Safari not loading pages with domain forwarding (from GoDaddy.com)
by Hanspeter Schaub 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Howdy WebKit-Developers, I've been trying to setup a small business web site which is hosted on my .Mac account. I purchased the domain http://blue-sky-prod.com from GoDaddy.com, and enabled this domain name to be forwarded to the .Mac web address. In Firefox and Explorer this works without a clitch. However, when running this in Safari (current Tiger build, or latest webkit-beta), the page comes up blank? Here is the odd thing. If I first fire up Firefox and load the page there, then the address (http://blue-sky-prod.com) loads just fine in Safari?? I tried calling GoDaddy.com support. The person there had heard of this issue a few days ago, but they didn't know what was causing this. Apparently all other browsers they try work just fine, only the Tiger+ Safari browser won't the auto-forwarded web pages. He couldn't give me any hint at how it would be for this to be resolved. He did say several times this could be an issue with Safari, in which case they couldn't do anything... Has anybody else here run into this? Is this really a Safari issue? Is this a GoDaddy.com server or domain forwarding issue? I'd appreciate any support/feedback/help on this issue. Many of our customers will be running OS X, so having Safari support is crucial. thanks, Hanspeter Schaub

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WebKit-unassigned
by Eric Seidel 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

We now have a list address which we plan to use for all un-assigned bugs. If you'd like to sign up: http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-unassigned -eric

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