Julien Chaffraix has been a very long time contributor to the WebKit project. He started by improving XMLHttpRequest. After that, he switched to different areas over the years (DOM, network stack, …). Lately he has been doing some rendering work aimed at improving <table> performance & memory footprint. Please join me in congratulating Julien!
I am delighted to announce that Andy Estes is now a WebKit reviewer. Andy works primarily on web site compatibility, which means that he has become familiar with many aspects of WebCore. You can thank Andy for keeping your favorite sites working in WebKit, and now you can ask him to review your patches too!
Congratulations, Andy!
Luiz is a long-time WebKit contributor. He has been working on maintaining and fixing bugs in the Qt port, on the implementation of the details and summary elements, on media query listeners for which he also helped writing the spec, as well as many other things. He has been an extraordinary help for the Qt port, and I am today pleased to announce that Luiz is our newest WebKit reviewer. Please join me in congratulating Luiz!
This week, I committed WebKit changes r92823 and r93001. They’re perhaps the most important changesets I’ve ever committed to the WebKit codebase because these changesets made WebKit no longer produce wrapping style spans on copy and paste and class="Apple-style-span" anymore. In fact, these are two changes I’ve always wanted to make ever since I started working on the WebKit’s editing component in the summer of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
It is my great pleasure to announce that Dean Jackson is now a WebKit reviewer. Dean has great knowledge of transforms, transitions and animations, and is active both in the code, and in developing the relevant standards. Congratulations, Dean!