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Archive for March, 2011

User Agent String Changes On WebKit Trunk

Posted by Peter Kasting on Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 1:25 pm

Recently some changes to the User Agent (UA) string have landed. These changes are designed to add UA string detail, remove redundancy, and increase compatibility with Internet Explorer, and are happening in conjunction with similar changes in Firefox 4. Here are a few sample pre-change UA strings: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.27+ [...]

It’s time for the 2011 WebKit Contributors Meeting!

Posted by Adele Peterson on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 at 6:12 pm

Apple will once again be hosting a WebKit Contributors Meeting. It will be held at the Cypress Hotel in Cupertino, CA on Monday, April 25th and Tuesday, April 26th from 9am to 6pm PDT. This meeting is for contributors to the WebKit Open Source Project. As with the meeting last year, this event will have [...]

Brian Weinstein is now a WebKit reviewer!

Posted by Adam Roben on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 at 10:55 am

Over the last year and a half, Brian Weinstein has been doin thangs around the WebKit project with abandon. He’s made improvements to the Web Inspector, implemented gestures support on Windows 7, fixed regression tests, improved our test harness, and designed and implemented new APIs for WebKit2. Now he’s going to start sharing his magic [...]

Benjamin Poulain is now a WebKit reviewer!

Posted by Andreas Kling on Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 at 2:30 am

Benjamin is one of the most active QtWebKit contributors. Over the last year and a half, he’s been making bug fixes and performance improvements in the Qt port layer, as well as the layout and rendering layer. He usually has good feedback on almost anything, and I look forward to having him review our patches. Please [...]