Safari 1.0 / Webcore 85

[Darin Adler]

On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 07:53 PM, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> it seems to me that Safari 1.0 is out. My best wishes to the new child 
> of the browser market and its development team :-)

Thanks. We're proud of the release.

> Also there is a new webcore release. Is there a changelog available 
> already?

We haven't done a change log yet. We would like to. We'll let you know 
when we have something (and mail it to this list).

> What are the future plans of the safari team?

We'll be doing more releases of Safari. At the very least, it seems 
almost certain that each new release of Mac OS X will include a new 
version of Safari, from now on.

> Can we now that the big 1.0 step is over invest a bit more time in 
> merging our efforts and codebases?

We're talking about how to improve this. We'd love to find practical 
ways to combine efforts that still allow us to do what we want to with 
future versions of Safari.

> How about a consolidated regression test suite? More regular patch 
> merges?

As a first step toward sharing tests, we are planning to include a set 
of our layout tests in the tarball next time we release WebCore. 
Although this is only a small step, it's something that we wanted to do 
a while ago, and we think is long overdue.

As far as merging is concerned, we'd like to take a lot more changes 
from newer KHTML versions into WebCore; one thing that has been 
preventing this is that we'd like to do that with a version you 
consider stable. We've ended up doing work to fix regressions when we 
took interim work in the past, and we think it's smarter to merge in 
something you guys are already happy enough with to ship.

The flip side of this is that we are quite happy with the state of 
WebCore-85 and JavaScriptCore-85. Even though there are many bugs and 
much room for improvement, we highly recommend you merge in the changes 
you'll find there.

There's probably more to say, but I figured I waited a long time to 
reply and didn't want to delay any further.

Oh, by the way, I should mention that there we made an organizational 
change here. I'm now managing the Safari and Web Kit team, and Don 
Melton is now the manager of a larger Internet Technologies group which 
includes our team as well as others. But otherwise the team is intact; 
the same bunch of us who worked on the Public Beta and Safari 1.0 are 
continuing to work on it.

     -- Darin