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Kenneth is one of the members of the WebGL working group and has been contributing to its implementation in WebKit for over a year. He is beginning to branch out by working on GPU acceleration for more areas in WebKit’s rendering.

Please join me in congratulating Kenneth on his reviewer status!

If you’ve been following check-ins for the last year or so, then you already know that some dedicated contributors have been working on a MathML implementation in WebKit. I am very pleased to announce that the implementation is now turned on by default in the WebKit build and in WebKit Nightlies! Big thanks to Alex Milowski, François Sausset, and everyone else who has worked on MathML in WebKit.

Check out Riemann’s Zeta Function, as rendered by WebKit:

Now, I know everyone wants posts about cool new features, and I assure you: they are coming!

For the time being, I would like to invite everyone to join me in congratulating Martin Robinson on his reviewer status! Martin has been doing a huge amount of work on improving the foundations for the cairo and GTK+ ports of WebKit for over a year now. With work ranging from drawing to drag and drop, Martin has also spent time improving editing, event handling, and the test harness of the GTK+ port. Welcome, Martin!

Chris is one of the original architects of the accelerated compositing backend for WebKit. He is a graphics guru, who is currently the editor of the WebGL specification being worked on in the Khronos Group and one of the main people working on WebKit’s implementation of it.

Please join me in congratulating Chris on his reviewer status!

Over the past few months, we’ve been hard at work implementing the parsing algorithm from HTML5. Before HTML5, there was no standard for how browsers should parse invalid HTML. As a result, every browser developed their own parsing quirks, harming interoperability for pages that contain invalid HTML. HTML5, in contrast, specifies a complete algorithm for parsing HTML documents. Switching to the HTML5 parsing algorithm has three main benefits:

Tony has made a significant contribution to getting Chromium’s DumpRenderTree running, implementing many of the Linux related bits. He has also fixed a large number of bugs and crashes in editing and related parts of the codebase. Leading up to the Chromium launch Tony wrote much of the Chromium port code that has made its way into the WebKit repository.

Please join me in congratulating Tony on his reviewer status!

Antonio started working on WebKit by helping out with the initial EFL port, and from then on moved to QtWebKit. Antonio brought a lot of experience from his work on the Mozilla project, and has been responsible for the spatial navigation implementation in WebKit, among other major contributions to the Qt port.

Please join me in congratulating Antonio on his reviewer status!