Apple rewards Webkit contributors

by William Eazel

13 Feb 2006

Apple is to reward some lucky users who took part in its WebKit Open Source Project with MacBook Pro Computers and all-expenses paid invitations to its Worldwide Developer’s Conference 2006.

Twelve MacBooks will be given to its top open source contributors, while another five will receive invites to the developer conference.

Apple started the WebKit Open Source Project in June 2005, inviting contributions from users globally. The contributions have helped Apple in developing future releases of Safari and WebKit.

Within its thank you note to contributors, Apple listed a handful of the improvements which non-Apple contributors have made. These include:

The entire webkit.org infrastructure, including nightly builds and the buildbot
JavaScriptCore that matches up with KJS
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
Text layout and rendering improvements, including excellent right-to-left support
A tremendous number of bug fixes
Excellent test cases
Pinpointed version numbers for regressions

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