Thank You from Apple!
Posted by Darin Adler on Thursday, February 9th, 2006 at 3:58 pmBack in June 2005, we started the WebKit Open Source Project.
Since then, lots of people have gotten involved in the project. Those of us at Apple are grateful for all the work they’ve done and how it will help us with future releases of Safari and WebKit.
We’ve received contributions in every area of WebKit. Here are just a few of the improvements made by non-Apple contributors:
- The entire webkit.org infrastructure, including nightly builds and the buildbot.
- JavaScriptCore that matches up with KJS.
- Many fixes that were formerly only in KHTML and KJS in the KDE source tree.
- SVG support in WebKit.
- Improved structure of DOM and auto-generated bindings inspired by KDOM.
- Vast text layout and rendering improvements, including excellent right-to-left support.
- A tremendous number of bug fixes that were easy because of reductions, excellent test cases, and pinpointed version numbers for regressions.
As a thank you, we are giving MacBook Pro computers to twelve of our top contributors. We’ve also invited five of them to attend Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference 2006 “on Apple’s dime”.
Some more information on the MacBook Pro is available at http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/ and information on the WWDC is available at http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/.
February 9th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
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February 9th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
This is terrific news! Thank you, Apple, and everyone should join Darin in thanking the contributors as well. WebKit is truly one of the best engines out there, seemingly developing at an ever-increasing pace!
February 9th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
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February 9th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
What’s Apple’s dime worth in USD? This may sound pessimistic, but I didn’t even know there were 12 people that could be considered top contributers that did *not* work for Apple.
February 10th, 2006 at 12:45 am
At Rosyna: yes there are
. The fact that we hang out in IRC all day doesn’t mean we work for Apple 
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Hi, what I don’t understand is why just webkit. I have been contributing to GCC and keeping GCC working on Darwin for 5 years now and I have not got one little thing from Apple, not even a thank card. (well I was an intern a summer two years ago but nothing else).
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Not only thank you from Apple but also thank you from Justin! You guys make Safari the best browser around and make my life as a webdesigner a lot easier!
Thanks Guys!
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