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Don Melton

Started the Safari and WebKit projects at Apple

EngineeringmacOSiOS

The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

Founded and led the Safari team at Apple, choosing KHTML and KJS as the core technologies that became WebKit, shipped in January 2003.
Now writes candid, first-hand histories of how Safari and WebKit were built and kept secret, a rare honest record of a landmark project.

Independent

Writer (retired Apple Engineering Director) · current

Hired and led the original Safari team; retired as Engineering Director of Internet Technologies

Why

Why we celebrate them.

Don lit the match on WebKit, the engine behind Safari and a huge share of the mobile web -- and then told the true story of how it happened.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

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