Hi webkit-dev, *If you work on web-facing features, or run into another bug which does, please consider adding the **"**WebExposed**"** keyword to it.*
Many of you will be familiar with my WebKit updates, which are now also being published on the WebKit blog. Writing these involves reading every commit that lands in WebKit's repository. Last year, May counted 2,126 revisions. This year there were 3,068. As a result of the steep increase in volume, it's becoming increasingly hard for all parties to keep up -- Web(Kit) developers, ports and all other interested parties. Not every one of them has time to read through all changes. In an effort to increase visibility of Web Platform facing changes, I'd like to introduce the "WebExposed" keyword. It is intended to be applied to any bug which introduces, modifies (including behavioral changes) or removes features important to Web developers, such as DOM properties and methods, JavaScript features and CSS properties and values. https://bugs.webkit.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=WebExposed Increased visibility of these changes has a number of advantages. Firstly, Web Developers will have more insight in what's happening in WebKit. The changes will be visible on the bug list itself, but also through the RSS feed Bugzilla will curate for it. Furthermore, it may be used as an overview for ports to keep track of the web-facing changes which happen during their release cycles, and it will also come in useful for evangelizing features, writing documentation and managing outreach. With work being done by many vendors in many areas of WebCore, I'm hoping the keyword can become a valuable aid in this respect. If you work on web-facing features, or run into another bug which does, please consider adding the "WebExposed" keyword to it. This of course isn't mandatory, but it will help others who are interested in keeping track. Thanks, Peter
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