Hello all, As part of the Google Summer of Code I am mentoring a student named Maxime Simon, who is resurrecting and continuing my port of WebKit to the Haiku operating system (http://haiku-os.org). I originally did this port in 2007, but stopped working on it until now. Obviously I never had it committed to the WebKit tree.
As part of the GSoC project Maxime has recently updated my port and got it building with the latest WebKit code (surprisingly it did not take too long.) He created a bug (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26620) to add this code to the WebKit repo. In his comments on that bug Eric Seidel asked that an email be sent here introducing ourselves. I figured I would start and let Maxime respond to this email if he wants. To assuage Eric's concerns, Haiku will not be disappearing anytime soon. The project has existed since 2001 and moves forward everyday (though progress can be slow since we have a small team and a big project: the recreation and continuation of the BeOS.) A huge part of any modern operating system is a good web browser and while Haiku has a port of Firefox, it does not have the speed and feel we want. Since WebKit is fast, elegant and easy to port it was the ideal choice for the engine behind our new web browser. So it would be really great if our port could become an official one in the WebKit tree :) I sure hope that Maxime will stick around after the Summer of Code, but in case he does not I will be sure to keep the Haiku WebKit port updated. I think the people who ported Firefox to BeOS and then Haiku will also want to help on this project. Since I plan to use Haiku as my main OS and the WebKit browser as my main browser I will truly be eating my own dogfood and it will be in my interest to keep it updated and working well :) -- Regards, Ryan _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev