[webkit-dev] Proposal: add Privacy to WebKit Project Goals

[John Wilander]

See inline.

> On Feb 23, 2020, at 5:02 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
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> 
> V2, with stronger privacy language.
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> project-new.html
> 1111  WebKit is an open source Web content engine for browsers and other applications.
> 1212</p></blockquote>
> 1313<p><img src="/wp-content/themes/webkit/images/webkit.svg" alt="The WebKit Project Logo" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4290" width="33%"></p>
> 14 <p>We value real-world web compatibility, standards compliance, stability, performance, security, portability, usability, and relative ease of understanding and modifying the code (hackability).</p>
>  14<p>We value real-world web compatibility, standards compliance, stability, performance, battery life, security, privacy, portability, usability, and relative ease of understanding and modifying the code (hackability).</p>
> 1515<h2><a name="project-goals"></a>Project Goals</h2>
> 1616<h4><a name="web-content-engine"></a>Web Content Engine</h4>
> 17 <p>The project’s primary focus is content deployed on the World Wide Web, using standards-based technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the DOM. However, we also want to make it possible to embed WebKit in other applications, and to use it as a general-purpose display and interaction engine.</p>
>  17<p>The project’s primary focus is content deployed on the World Wide Web, using standards-based technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript and DOM. However, we also want to make it possible to embed WebKit in other applications, and to use it as a general-purpose display and interaction engine.</p>

We seem to use the Oxford comma (yay!) but not in "JavaScript and DOM."

> 1818<h4><a name="open-source"></a>Open Source</h4>
> 1919<p>WebKit should remain freely usable for both open source and proprietary applications. To that end, we use BSD-style and LGPL licenses. Specifically, we aim for licensing compatible with LGPL 2.1+. We do not currently plan to move to LGPL 3. In addition, we strive to create a courteous, welcoming environment that feels approachable to newcomers. WebKit maintains a public IRC chat room and a public mailing list where the ideas of contributors both new and old are heard and discussed with equal weight.</p>
> 2020<h4><a name="compatibility"></a>Compatibility</h4>
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> 2424<h4><a name="stability"></a>Stability</h4>
> 2525<p>The main WebKit code base should always maintain a high degree of stability. This means that crashes, hangs and regressions should be dealt with promptly, rather than letting them pile up.</p>
> 2626<h4><a name="performance"></a>Performance</h4>
> 27 <p>Maintaining and improving speed and memory use is an important goal. We never consider performance “good enough”, but strive to constantly improve. As web content becomes richer and more complex, and as web browsers run on more limited devices, performance gains continue to have value even if normal browsing seems fast enough.</p>
>  27<p>Maintaining and improving speed and memory use is an important goal. We never consider performance “good enough”, but strive to constantly improve. As web content becomes richer and more complex, and as web browsers run on more limited devices, performance gains continue to have value even if normal browsing seems fast enough. We consider speed, memory use, responsiveness and frame rate to be important aspects of performance.</p>

Oxford comma missing in "responsiveness and frame."

>  28<h4><a name="battery-life"></a>Battery Life</h4>
>  29<p>In addition to traditional performance metrics, we aim to minimize power consumption to maximize browsing battery life for portable devices.</p>
> 2830<h4><a name="security"></a>Security</h4>
> 2931<p>Protecting users from security violations is critical. We fix security issues promptly to protect users and maintain their trust.</p>
>  32<h4><a name="privacy"></a>Privacy</h4>
>  33<p>We believe privacy is a human right. WebKit code won't track the user or otherwise violate their privacy. And we will strive to prevent websites and other parties from doing so.</p>

"WebKit code won't track the user” is ambiguous since WebKit code is rendering webpages that may try to track the user. It suggest "WebKit code itself will not track the user.”

Otherwise a great goal statement.

   Regards, John

> 3034<h4><a name="portability"></a>Portability</h4>
> 3135<p>The WebKit project seeks to address a variety of needs. We want to make it reasonable to port WebKit to a variety of desktop, mobile, embedded and other platforms. We will provide the infrastructure to do this with tight platform integration, reusing native platform services where appropriate and providing friendly embedding APIs.</p>
> 3236<h4><a name="usability"></a>Usability</h4>
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