WebKit

James has been working on bug fixes and performance improvements in the layout and rendering parts of WebKit, as well as working on the Chromium port. Recently, he has been adding support for hardware accelerated rendering. He has already given solid feedback in informal code reviews for areas in his expertise, and I look [...]

Kenneth is one of the members of the WebGL working group and has been contributing to its implementation in WebKit for over a year. He is beginning to branch out by working on GPU acceleration for more areas in WebKit’s rendering. Please join me in congratulating Kenneth on his reviewer status!

If you’ve been following check-ins for the last year or so, then you already know that some dedicated contributors have been working on a MathML implementation in WebKit. I am very pleased to announce that the implementation is now turned on by default in the WebKit build and in WebKit Nightlies! Big thanks to Alex [...]

Now, I know everyone wants posts about cool new features, and I assure you: they are coming! For the time being, I would like to invite everyone to join me in congratulating Martin Robinson on his reviewer status! Martin has been doing a huge amount of work on improving the foundations for the cairo and GTK+ [...]

Chris is one of the original architects of the accelerated compositing backend for WebKit. He is a graphics guru, who is currently the editor of the WebGL specification being worked on in the Khronos Group and one of the main people working on WebKit’s implementation of it. Please join me in congratulating Chris [...]

Over the past few months, we’ve been hard at work implementing the parsing algorithm from HTML5. Before HTML5, there was no standard for how browsers should parse invalid HTML. As a result, every browser developed their own parsing quirks, harming interoperability for pages that contain invalid HTML. HTML5, in contrast, specifies a [...]

Tony has made a significant contribution to getting Chromium’s DumpRenderTree running, implementing many of the Linux related bits. He has also fixed a large number of bugs and crashes in editing and related parts of the codebase. Leading up to the ... [More] Chromium launch Tony wrote much of the Chromium port code that has made its way into the WebKit [...] [Less]

Antonio started working on WebKit by helping out with the initial EFL port, and from then on moved to QtWebKit. Antonio brought a lot of experience from his work on the Mozilla project, and has been responsible for the spatial navigation implementation in WebKit, among other major contributions to the Qt port. Please join me in [...]

Dumitru Daniliuc, better known to the community as Dumi, has spent most of his time working on WebSQLDatabase. After getting it working within Chromium’s sandbox, Dumi has focused his efforts on fixing bugs, cleaning up code, getting database ... [More] functional within Web Workers, and helping implement the synchronous interface to the API. Please join me in [...] [Less]

Chris came to WebKit as an accessibility expert, and he has put a lot of work into improving our accessibility support. He has done bug-fixing and architecture work, implemented many ARIA features, and greatly enhanced DumpRenderTree’s accessibility testing capabilities. Please join me in congratulating Chris on his reviewer status!