James, Glad to see you interested in WebKit GSoC. My primary suggestion would be that you join #webkit and meet the team. From there we can help you find areas of interest to you which should be doable by someone of your experaince in the GSoC timeframe.
-eric (MacDome on #webkit or eseidel when @ work) On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:19 AM, james leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a computing science student who's been a long-time user of the > Webkit nightly builds, and since Webkit has joined GSoC this year, I'm > really interested in doing a project with it. I have a decent > knowledge of C (I've coded a few small web servers that implemented a > minimal subset of HTTP 1.1), and as my friends can attest, a fanatical > supporter of Webkit in general. I was intrigued in the DHTML and ARIA > UI projects because they're personally interesting to me, and the SVG > compliance bugs. For the former, links to bug pages and the Mozilla > docs were provided, but I was wondering if there was any additional > information. I'm still picking my way through the bugs linked on that > page, so if said information is found there, I apologize for not > getting there yet. > > Also, I was wondering whether someone with my background (ie. 2-3 > years of C with ~3 years of undergrad comp sci experience, no > experience with contributing to the Webkit project as of yet) could > become sufficiently familiar with the areas of the codebase necessary > to work on the DHTML/ARIA and/or SVG projects. Am I going to be > completely out of my league? Will be youthful naivity be painfully > crushed by the monolithic reality of the abyss that is SVG? Inquiring > mind(s) wish to know. > > Thanks! > > -james l > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
