Alp Toker

Recently we’ve been working to finish off and land the last couple of fixes to get a perfect pixel-for-pixel match against the reference Acid3 rendering in WebKit/GTK+. I believe we’re the first project to achieve this on Linux — congratulations to everyone on the team!

Epiphany using WebKit r32284

We also recently announced our plans to align more closely with the GNOME desktop and mobile platform. To this end we’re making a few technology and organisational changes that I hope to discuss in an upcoming post.

With the revised deadline for Google Summer of Code ‘08 student applications looming, we’ve been getting a lot of interest in browser-related student projects. I’ve put together a list of some of my favourite ideas.

• GNOME ideas
  • Epiphany
    • Desktop integration
    • Bookmark and history integration
    • JavaScript debugger based on Drosera / Web Inspector
  • Evolution
    • Bug tracking aid
  • Empathy
    • WebKit Adium theme support
  • Desktop widgets
  • Integrated web app launcher
• WebKit ideas
  • Cairo SVG backend completion
  • GTK+ port test suite completion
• Mono ideas
  • WebKit-based HTML editor

If in doubt, now’s the time to submit proposals. Already-listed ideas are the most likely to get mentored but students are free to propose their own ideas as well. Proposals for incremental improvements will tend to be favoured over ideas for completely new applications, but a proof of concept and/or roadmap can help when submitting plans for larger projects.

Update: There’s no need to keep asking about the status of an application on IRC/private mail etc. It’s a busy time for the upstream developers but they’ll get back in touch as soon as possible.