Surfin' Safari

Adrienne is one of the principal developers of the compositing infrastructure in the Chromium port, and has added major features such as tiling and texture memory management. Enne has also made significant contributions to WebKit’s cross-platform accelerated compositing code, including some tricky bug fixes affecting large web applications. Please join me in congratulating Adrienne on [...]

Another 754 commits managed to find their way in WebKit’s repository last week, bringing many updates including support for the Vibration API, WebSocket’s DEFLATE extension and parsing for two CSS Grid Layout properties. Web Inspector’s Audit Panel gained the ability to warn developers about CSS properties which should be unprefixed. The Ctrl/Cmd {+,-,0} key combinations [...]

684 commits landed in WebKit’s repository over the course of last week, bringing several new features and improvements such as a color picker for Web Inspector, two new CSS properties and the “translate” attribute for all HTML elements. Brian Grinstead’s color picker is now enabled by default in WebKit nightlies, following some slight polishing. To aid the undo and [...]

In the last couple of years Alex, as we call him, helped with the WebKitGTK+ port maintenance from bugfixing to testing or releasing. He also contributed some improvements to the shadow rendering performance and lately he started the integration of WebKit2 GTK+ port, helping also with the integration of the accelerated compositing in the GTK+ port. Please join me [...]

Chris Rogers is the author of the Web Audio API specification and the primary implementor of it in WebKit.  Chris has also contributed to the XHR2 specification (the .responseType and .response attributes), and implemented these attributes in WebKit. Please join me in congratulating Chris on his new role as a WebKit reviewer!