don melton

Debug 11: Don Melton and Safari

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Mar 25, 2013 a 6:16 pm

Don Melton, former Engineering Director of Internet Technologies at Apple, talks to Guy and Rene about assembler on the Apple II, open-sourcing Mozilla, building Nautilus, creating WebKit and the Safari browser, teaching bears to dance, and cleaning cusses from code bases.

How Apple reduces duplicative efforts and complexity

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013 a 9:09 am

Don Melton, who ran WebKit and Safari for Apple until last year, has been sharing his insights for a while now on his personal blog. His latest post delves into the canard of fake projects and loyalty tests, but in dispelling it, Melton also sheds light on why Apple's corporate culture makes such things outlandish to begin with. From donmelton.com:

No Safaris left to conquer

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Feb 18, 2013 a 10:30 pm

Don Melton on why, when he looked upon the breadth of his WebKit and Safari work at Apple, he retired:

The day Steve Jobs unveiled the Safari web browser

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Jan 11, 2013 a 12:06 am

Don Melton, the man hired by Scott Forstall to build a web browser for the Mac, and later iOS, is continuing his post-Apple turn as a blogger, this time reminiscing about the day Steve Jobs introduced Safari at Macworld 2003. Writing on donmelton.com talks, in part, about the reaction to their use of Konquerer's KHTML instead of Firefox's Gecko rendering engine:

How the Safari browser started life as Alexander and hid itself from the world

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Jan 4, 2013 a 9:25 am

Don Melton, who was originally tasked by Scott Forstall to create WebKit and the Safari browser for OS X, and later WebKit of iOS, has retired from his job as engineering director of internet technologies, and begun writing. One of his writing projects is a blog, and two of his recent posts shed some light on the people and events behind Safari.