Google Summer of Code 2008

WebKit Project Ideas:

• SVG
  • ​SVG Filters - Implement a platform-independent set of c++ based SVG filters. Currently only the Mac platform has a filters implementation (CoreImage based) which is disabled in tip of tree WebKit.
  • Fix our ​SVG Animation implementation - we can't pass ​Acid3 without it
  • ​SVG Bug fighting (clipping redesign, xhtml/svg integration issues, a lot more, please ask)
• CSS
  • Pass the rest of the ​CSS 2.1 test suite (and possibly the ​new suite from Microsoft)
  • CSS3 Paged Media - Add support for ​CSS3 Paged Media, or a subset thereof. Currently we have no support in WebKit.
• Other new specifications/Features
  • ​MathML (at least the presentational parts, can get very far with a stylesheet only)
  • ​Ruby Annotation Support
  • ​HTML 5 Offline Web Applications support - ​http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#offline
  • ​HTML 5 <datagrid> support
  • ​XBL2 (fairly hard)
  • canvas 3d extensions a la ​mozilla or ​opera
  • canvas text drawing ​mozilla
  • ​ARIA - Accessible Rich Internet Applications
  • ​Web Forms 2
  • MHTML support (Microsoft's "web archive" equivalent) (see ​http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7168 and ​http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7169)
  • Support output of "Web page, complete" format (see ​http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7211)
• JavaScript Engine Work
  • Interruptible JavaScript evaluation
  • Generational JavaScript garbage collection
  • Improved source syntax highlighting
• Platform Ports
  • Native Windows port - the current (Apple) Windows port requires use of non-redistributable Apple libraries. There has been effort underway to create a Native Windows port that does not require Apple libraries. More help in this effort would be useful.
  • Windows Mobile port - there has been mention of at least 3 Windows Mobile ports of WebKit. It would be useful to create and/or consolidate a single Windows Mobile port integrated into the main WebKit trunk.
  • Cairo
    • SVG backend completion (gradients, patterns and other bug fixes to make the test suite results match the CG backend)
  • Qt
    • SVG backend completion
  • Gtk
    • ATK accessibility support
• Developer Tools
  • Anything on the Developer Tools Hitlist
  • Drosera improvements
    • Tree view of local variables that show properties of objects (right now we just show top-level stack variables)
    • Live evaluation of JavaScript in the current document's context (when the debugger isn't paused)
    • Inline editing of scripts
    • Pretty print scripts that are all on one line
    • Browse the DOM of the host document from within Drosera (using the Web Inspector)
    • Better syntax highlighting (done in the engine with HTML highlighting)
  • Web Inspector improvements
    • Viewing the render tree (with the ability to see what DOM node corresponds to a render object, and visa versa)
    • Set Drosera breakpoints on script elements and event handler element attributes (e.g. onclick, etc.)
    • Better node highlight overlay that shows margin and padding boxes
    • Improved JavaScript properties pane
    • Improved Metrics pane
  • Other JavaScript debugging tools
    • Memory allocation logging tool
    • Event dispatch watching
    • Javascript profiler
  • Developer tool of your own design
• Development Infrastructure
  • Automated WebKit API regression tests (testing the Obj-C, COM, C++ APIs exposed on various platforms)
• Improvements for DHTML application UI development:
  • Focus and Keyboard Navigation improvements for DHTML applications (see ​http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7138)
  • Add ARIA support for adding semantics to DHTML application user interface nodes (see ​http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12132)
  • See ​http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Accessible_DHTML for more ideas.
• more project ideas go here here

2008 Mentors:

• Eric Seidel < eric at webkit >, MacDome on #webkit (administrator)
• Nikolas Zimmermann < zimmermann at webkit > , WildFox on #webkit (backup administrator)
• David D. Kilzer < ddkilzer at webkit >, ddkilzer on #webkit
• Pending: Jasper Bryant-Greene < jasper at unix dot geek dot nz >, jasperbg on #webkit
• Pending: Daniel Zucker, PhD < zucker at wake3 dot com >, zucker on #webkit
• Still waiting to hear from the other 30+ WebKit reviewers
• Policy: Any reviewer (see ​http://webkit.org/coding/commit-review-policy.html) who applies to be a mentor will be accepted (and are welcome to mentor in any area they feel comfortable in). Others are welcome, but we'll need to discuss details first.
• EMAIL eric at webkit dot org if you would like to be a mentor