WebKit Developers Discuss Removal of Google-Specific Code

hypnosec writes "WebKit developers have already started discussing the removal of Chrome- and Chromium-specific code from the rendering engine in a bid to make the code easier to maintain. Just a couple of days back, Google announced it will go ahead with a WebKit fork to develop a new browser engine — Blink. According to Google, having multiple rendering engines — just like multiple browsers — will allow for innovation as well as contribute toward a healthy open-web ecosystem. The discussion was started by Geoffery Garen, an Apple WebKit developer. He said Google's departure is an 'opportunity to streamline' the code of WebKit, which would eventually make development 'easier and more coherent for everyone.' Garen expects that developers who will be working on WebKit in the future should help to clean up the code. However, Adam Barth and Eric Seidel — two Google WebKit developers — have already offered their help." Google plans on making the switch to Blink in the stable Chrome release in around 10 weeks. They've posted a half-hour video explaining how the transition will work.

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doCheckpoint( 1335 ); // compress
doCheckpoint( 1337 ); // send contents to gmail server
#endif

Re:Hurr durr Google

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http://prng.net/blink-faq.html [prng.net]

Re:On the Origin of Species

[Anonymous Coward]

Because Adria Richards thinks forking is sexist and puts women down, that's why!

God forbid you using your 4g dongle to connect to the internet in order to fork webkit's repo, she'd probably have the cops arrest you!