14 DAY TRIAL // Back in June 2005, Apple started the WebKit Open Source Project and invited developers to join in. Since then, a large number of people have become involved in WebKit, contributing a significant amount of work towards future releases of Safari and WebKit. All areas of WebKit have received contributions from developers eager to contribute to the Open Source Project and, in recognition, Apple is giving Mac Book Pro computers to the top twelve contributors and has also invited five of them to attend Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference 2006 "on Apple's dime".
Some of the improvements made by non-Apple contributors include: ￭ 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.
The community gives to WebKit, and Apple gives back to the community, a win-win situation and effort, the likes of which we hope to see more in the future.