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Levi Weintraub has been with webkit.org a long time. He’s known for various projects including his bidi work and most recently our subpixel layout support. Please join me in congratulating our latest reviewer!

A total of 650 commits landed in WebKit’s repositories last week, ending with revision 116915.

Since there wasn’t an update last week, this one briefly covers changes between revisions 114867 and 116271.

Web Inspector now offers the ability to disable all JavaScript execution on a page, and also allows Web Socket frames to be inspected. The shortcut overlay has received some UI polish and the Timeline Frame Mode has been taken out of experimental.

Alexis (aka darktears on IRC) has been an unstoppable WebKit coder in the last couple of years working at INdT/Nokia Brazil.

Among his contributions would be the Qt multimedia backends with GStreamer/QTKit, improvements to getComputedStyle, and countless other contributions in various parts of WebKit.

We’re happy to finally remove the word “unofficial” from his reviews. Welcome Alexis!

A total of 652 changes landed last week in various branches of WebKit’s repository. This update covers changes up to revision 114894.

Last Thursday and Friday, Apple kindly hosted the 2012 WebKit Contributors Meeting in Cupertino. With contributors from many different vendors around, a large number of subjects were covered in presentations and discussions. Transcripts of most of these are available on WebKit’s Trac, including a group photo of all attendees.

Abhishek, better known to the community as inferno, joined the WebKit community in March 2010, and he has been fixing security bugs in CSS, DOM, editing, rendering, and various other components in WebKit. Abhishek has contributed more than 260 patches, many of which are fixes to severe security bugs.

Please join me in welcoming Abhishek Arya as a new WebKit reviewer.

667 commits made it into WebKit’s repository last week.

Jocelyn has been a key contributor to the Qt port for many years now and has
lately been exploring the accelerated land of the texture mapper on the
WebKit2 planet.

Please join me in congratulating Jocelyn on his new role as a WebKit reviewer!

A total of 732 commits landed in WebKit’s repository last week.

It has been almost a year since we announced the support for WebKit remote debugging. It is now officially supported by BlackBerry PlayBook and in Chrome for Android. Latest version of Chrome introduces new extensions API that exposes it to the in-browser clients as well.

A total of 792 changes landed in WebKit’s repository last week.

With 901 commits to the various branches on WebKit’s repository, last week brought highlights including the move of WTF and a new CSS property to aid usage of responsive images: image-set().