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Apple's Safari Tech Evangelist you've never heard of

30 points by cwebbdesign 14y ago

ecopoesis 14y ago
https://www.webkit.org/blog/ https://www.webkit.org/blog/ isn't good enough? These guys go into great detail about what they're working on and have always helped me out quickly when I've run into bugs with Safari.
- masklinn 14y ago
  The issue is that Safari moves at a much slower pace than Webkit itself these days and the webkit blog gives little information about the Safari side of things.
nilium 14y ago
I think it'd be nice to see more communication, but what kind of communication? As ecopoesis mentioned, https://webkit.org https://webkit.org already exists, so I think what this post fails to do is actually say what it's looking for specifically. Is it conferences? A mailing list? Email addresses that are publicly available? The post itself is very flowery towards the end but mostly meaningless. Be specific. Also not sure what you mean by "sign on the dotted line." The Safari developer program only requires you to create an Apple dev account and is otherwise free. So are all WWDC videos if you simply have an account, regardless of whether you're in any program.
masklinn 14y ago
> The Safari Technologies Evangelist actually does speak at one conference: WWDC. And the videos from that conference are available online …if you sign on the dotted line. What dotted line? A free developer account lets you access all WWDC videos since 2010.
- scraplab 14y ago
  You still need an account, hence the signing up.
timothya 14y ago
I had heard of her before, but only because I've watched the Safari videos from Apple's WWDC. This is the only place I've encountered her online, and if you're going to call yourself an "evangelist", then I should be seeing you more often than once a year. Compare that with Google Chrome's Developer Relations people - I see their posts online all the time, plus a ton of articles by them, plus they hold office hours on Google+ all the time. That's how to be an evangelist.
alwillis 14y ago
Any web developer who's ever attended WWDC or has an Apple Developer Connection account knows who Vicki Murley is. Another way to look at the issue: who's fault is it that you don't know the key people behind the browse engine that powers Safari and Chrome and is dominating the mobile web?

30 points by cwebbdesign 14y ago

https://www.webkit.org/blog/ https://www.webkit.org/blog/ isn't good enough? These guys go into great detail about what they're working on and have always helped me out quickly when I've run into bugs with Safari.

masklinn 14y ago
The issue is that Safari moves at a much slower pace than Webkit itself these days and the webkit blog gives little information about the Safari side of things.

nilium 14y ago

I think it'd be nice to see more communication, but what kind of communication? As ecopoesis mentioned, https://webkit.org https://webkit.org already exists, so I think what this post fails to do is actually say what it's looking for specifically. Is it conferences? A mailing list? Email addresses that are publicly available? The post itself is very flowery towards the end but mostly meaningless. Be specific. Also not sure what you mean by "sign on the dotted line." The Safari developer program only requires you to create an Apple dev account and is otherwise free. So are all WWDC videos if you simply have an account, regardless of whether you're in any program.

masklinn 14y ago

> The Safari Technologies Evangelist actually does speak at one conference: WWDC. And the videos from that conference are available online …if you sign on the dotted line. What dotted line? A free developer account lets you access all WWDC videos since 2010.

scraplab 14y ago
You still need an account, hence the signing up.

timothya 14y ago

I had heard of her before, but only because I've watched the Safari videos from Apple's WWDC. This is the only place I've encountered her online, and if you're going to call yourself an "evangelist", then I should be seeing you more often than once a year. Compare that with Google Chrome's Developer Relations people - I see their posts online all the time, plus a ton of articles by them, plus they hold office hours on Google+ all the time. That's how to be an evangelist.

alwillis 14y ago

Any web developer who's ever attended WWDC or has an Apple Developer Connection account knows who Vicki Murley is. Another way to look at the issue: who's fault is it that you don't know the key people behind the browse engine that powers Safari and Chrome and is dominating the mobile web?