As you can read on the Haiku-OS web site there are some news about the progress of the WebKIT port (an open source web browser engine used in Safari and inherited from KHTML / Konqueror).

Ryan “leavengood” Leavengood, which applied the Haikuware’s bounty  for the port, recently posted a report about the progress at this stage. The post relates the achievements but also ask for help.  Indeed this is a huge task to be handled alone and naturally Ryan starts feeling stressed instead of having fun with the coding. So, he published the source code and gave some explaination about how to work on the haiku web port so other developpers can join and help him continue the port. Two devs, Marcus Jacob and Andrea Anzani, already get on board. If this adventure thrill you up, get on board !

For what concerns the bounty, he let people decide, based on the code and progress report provided , if or how much he deserve for the advancement.

At this time the HaikuLauncher is running in an extremely basic form to test WebCore but no screenshot can be shown because of an irreductible bug still very difficult to be squashed :-)

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